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*rhe Rebebb, fevcral Soi'ts of Flutcs and Hautboys^ they have the Rebehh, 

 a Violm of two Strings, which is played upon with a Bow : 



The A-oude.the A-oude\ a Bafs double ftringed Lute, bigger than our 

 Viol, which is touched with a Tk&rum\ with feveral fmaller 

 Gittars (or ^etaras^ according to their Pronunciation,) of 

 different Sizes, each of them tuned an 06iave higher than a- 

 nother. They have alfo improved the Tarr of the Bedoweens, 

 by fufpending loofely, upon Pieces of Wire, in the Rim of It, 

 leveral Pairs of thin hollow brafs Plates, which, clafliing againft 

 each other in the feveral Strokes and Vibrations given to the 

 Parchment, form a clinking but regular Kind of Noife, which 

 filleth up thofe little Vacancies of Sound, that W'ould otherwife 

 be unavoidable in thefe Conforts. Yet notwithftanding this 

 Multiplicity of Inftruments, and that they learn all by Ear, 

 palling quickly from one Meafure to another , and haftening 

 the Time, (as the Muficians term it) in them all ; yet there 

 is always great Uniformity and Exadlnefs obferved throughout 

 all their Performances. I have often obferved twenty or 

 thirty Perfons together, proceed, in this manner, from one Air 

 to another, during the Space of a whole Night, ( the ufual 

 Time of their Entertainments,) without making the leaft Blun- 

 der or Hefitation. 



T^eTurkifh Neither fhould I omit the Turhijh Mulick, which is inferiour 



Mufuk &c. ^j^^gg^ ^Q ^j^g Moorijh in Life and Sprightlinefs , yet is ftill 



fomewhat more compounded than that of the Bedoweens. The 

 Turks have been generally a profperous and thriving People, 

 diftinguifliing Themfelves fometimes by brisk and chearful 

 Tempers ; yet there is a certain mournful and melancholy 

 Turn, which runs through all their Compofitions. We may 

 account for It perhaps from that long Intercourfe and Conver- 

 fation, which they have had with their Grecian Subjects ^ 

 whofe Airs, for the moft Part, are doleful and ferious, like thofe 

 of a neighbouring Nation, infpiring in the Hearer Penfivenefs 

 and Sorrow ; which, as I have fomewhere read, hanging upon 

 the Minds, cannot fail of being communicated to the Mulick 

 of Perfons in Diftrefs and Captivity. They chiefly make ufe 

 of two Inftruments ; whereof the one is like a long necked Kitt, 



I tVc A-oude, from whence the Spanifli Laud or Laut, m& our Lute, fuppofed l>y Bochart 

 (Hicroz. I. 1. 4. cap. 8.) to be rfce X6?iur or Teftudo of the Ant'tents. 2 The fame Word and 

 Infirument no doubt with the antient Cithara. 



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