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Headword:
Ξυλυφίων
Adler number: xi,98
Translated headword: xylophone
Vetting Status: high
Translation: As applied to soft twigs, when we bend and release them.[1] [Note] that Diokles of
Athens first invented music in clay saucers in earthenware pots, which he struck with a twig.[2]
Ξυλυφίων: οἷον ἐπὶ τῶν ἁπαλῶν ξυλυφίων, ὅταν κάμψαντες ἀφῶμεν αὐτά: ὅτι Διοκλῆς ὁ Ἀθηναῖος πρῶτος εὗρε τὴν ἐν τοῖς ὀξυβάφοις ἁρμονίαν ἐν ὀστρακίνοις ἀγγείοις, ἅπερ ἔκρουεν ἐν ξυλυφίῳ.
Notes:
Although "xylophone" is an irrestible translation for this percussion instrument, the resonating part of a xylyphion, as described here, was not actually wood at all. See generally West (below) p.128, with p.127.
[1] From
gamma 468.
[2] From
delta 1155. (There too the actual idiom, an odd one, is "in" a twig.)
M.L.West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992).
OCD(3) p.470, 'Diocles(2)'.
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Translated by: James L. P. Butrica † on 18 February 2000@12:43:30.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added headword and notes; cosmetics) on 11 January 2001@11:20:23.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 16 September 2007@10:26:54.
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