"Of ancient stringed instruments there are, we may roughly say, two broad types; in one the strings are stretched across a sound-box and lie parallel to it—this we may call the ‘’ type, though including, for our present purpose, the various forms of and ; in the other the strings are attached to the upper board of the sound-box and rise vertically from it—this is the ‘harp’ type."
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Francis William Galpin
(25 December 1858 — 30 December 1945) was an English cleric of the , antiquarian musicologist, collector of antique musical instruments, archaeological antiquarian, naturalist, and local historian.
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