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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



made sopiiratc iind inserted in the smaller ends. Tbey are close 

 together and are intended to he blown both at the same time. The 

 instrument is of the clarionet type. Vibratinji; reeds are attached to 

 these small mouthpieces by cords wound about them at the outer end, 

 leaving the inner end free for vibration. The free ends of the cords by 

 which the parallel tubes are bound are attached to the mouthpieces to 

 prevent loss. The length of this instrument is 0^ inches, the diameter 



of the tube is 4 inch, of the 

 mouthpiece ^ inch. (Gift of 

 A. 1>. Karny.) 



Fig. 1 96 represents a pottery 

 drum from Syria. (Collected 

 by Erhard Bissinger, United 

 States consul.) Tlie shell is 

 of red earthenware in the 

 shape of a longitudinal sec- 

 tion of a bottle. It has a 

 parcliment head stretched, 

 stitched, and glued in place. 

 The pottery is decorated with 

 incised zigzag lines nearly 

 equidistant throughout the 

 length of the instrument. It 

 is 16.^ inches in height, and its 

 respective diameters are 3f 

 and 103 inches. 



The musical instruments of 

 the Bil^le are not considered 

 in this paper other than Dr. 

 Adler's reference to the shofar. 

 They will be well known to all 

 readers, and their presentation 

 here would only be a work of 

 collation. They are of suffi- 

 cient antiquity to be classed 

 as archieologic, and could well 

 have a j)lace in any work on 

 the history of music; but the people who used them had an enlight- 

 ened civilization, and the instruments themselves were far from being 

 prehistoric, although they may have been-|)rimitive. 



India. 



Fig. 4 (Plate 08) represents the shringa, a common ox or buffalo horn 

 scraped and polished, the tip cut off, and a hole made or enlarged in the 

 end, half an inch in diameter, to serve as a mouthpiece. This enlarge- 

 ment is made with a hot iron, without any attempt to spread or stretch 



Fig. 190. 



POTTERY DRUM (deibovka). 



Beirut, Syria. 



Cat. No. 95147, U.S.N. M. 



