Thursday, July 12, 2012

Is that a hurdy gurdy?























No, it's a פסנתרין (Daniel 3:5), allegedly. 

Here's the whole key:




















And the images:


From Moses Landau's, נכדו של הגאון בעל הצל"ח, Prague 1835 edition of Psalms (link). It has tziltzele shema and tziltzelei serua.
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7 comments:

  1. Mo2:07 PM, July 12, 2012

    Interesting to note that the English word "symphony" might have meant bagpipe originally in Greek, as depicted in picture 16 (סומפוניא). Don't know how many people would be willing to sit through a bagpipe symphony...

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  2. Abe3:46 PM, July 12, 2012

    In 1612 אברהם הרופא פורטלאונה printed a book שלטי הגיבורים in which he descripes in detail all the musical instruments mentioned in Torah and chazal.


    http://www.otzar.org/wotzar/book.aspx?7286

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  3. S.3:58 PM, July 12, 2012

    As you can see, many of these cite the Shiltei Hagiborim as its source.

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  4. Abe4:05 PM, July 12, 2012

    I see it now.

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  5. Dan Klein3:21 AM, July 13, 2012

    Personally I wouldn't at all mind a bagpipe symphony, or at least a concerto. Interesting that Landau gives no support to the theory, advanced by Shadal and others, that the "ugav" was not a wind instrument but a variant of one of the strings that he pictures.

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  6. JudaicaUsed.com2:30 PM, July 15, 2012

    There was a condensed version of Shilte Hagiborim published recently as well titled עניני המשכן והמקדש
    edited by שאול שפר
    If I recall correctly, Shilte Hagiborim was The first Hebrew book using European punctuation.

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  7. Anonymous3:39 AM, August 06, 2012

    There was a new version {Shiltei HaGiborrim] by Machon Yerushalayim printed about a year or two ago. Panim Chadashot mamash.

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