sambuca

I queried the clavichord list about this instrument, here is what they
found. No one seems to have built one.
Judy

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But I will add to this list of references that the Encyclopedia Brittanica
1938 edition had an entry on the ancient instrument mentioned by Aristotle
known as a sambuca, they said it was probably a shrill triangular harp,
but also had been identified with a tambourine, a flute, and an early
sackbutt.

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> >From Sybil Marcuse "Musical Instruments - A Comprehensive Dictionary"
> >W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 1975, ISBN 0-393-00758-8 (paperback)
> >
> ><No sambuco>
> >Sambuca - chordophone of ancient Rome (angular harp?)
> >Sambuca - 10th century - "cruit"
> >sambucus - "swegelhorn" (8th century Saxon)
> >sambuca - 14th century - compared to a harp.
> >sambuca - 16-17th century - hackbrett or arpicordo
> >
> >Sambuca rotata - Latin name for the hurdy-gurdy
> >
> >But what I think you want is (quoted in full)
> >
> >"Sambuca lincea [sambuca of the Lincei Academy], enharmonic harpsichord
> >designed by Fabio Colonna by 1618, each whole tone being divided into 4
> >microtones, with bichord stringing and 8 rows of keys. Also called
> >pentecontachordon from its 50 unequal strings." See (27) D.H Boalch
> >"Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1956". (64) W Dupont
> >"Geschichte der musikalischen Temperatur". 1935.
> >
> >See also "Welcome to the North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island"
> >http://www.anaphoria.com/
> >for 19(Wilson) and 53(Hanson) tone keyboards in the Erv Wilson archive.
> >(A 19 tone clavichord yet!) - I'm sure there will be a 31 one in there
> >somewhere!

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> >From Stringed Instruments of the Middle Ages by Hortense Panum
>
>
> Sambuka (the Greek Sambyke, or the Chaldean Sabka or Sabeka mentioned
> by the prophet Daniel) and its precursors Magadis and Pektis (both
> triangular harps) - the Sambuka is distinguished by its short strings
> and high pitch