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Headword:
Xuluphiôn
Adler number: xi,98
Translated headword: xylophone
Vetting Status: high
Translation: As in reference to soft twigs, when we bend and release them.[1] [Note] that
Diocles of
Athens first invented music made with clay saucers, with earthenware pots, which he struck with a twig.[2]
Greek Original:Xuluphiôn: hoion epi tôn hapalôn xuluphiôn, hotan kampsantes aphômen auta: hoti Dioklês ho Athênaios prôtos heure tên en tois oxubaphois harmonian en ostrakinois angeiois, haper ekrouen en xuluphiôi.
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) 128, with 127.
[1] From
gamma 468.
[2] From
delta 1155. (There too the actual idiom, an odd one, is "in" a twig.)
References:
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992).
OCD4 Diocles(2).
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Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 18 February 2000@12:43:30.
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