For #UncommonInstrumentAwarenessDay, here is the beginning of European ethnomusicology: Johannes Tinctoris, *De inventione et usu musice* (Naples, 1482×3), IV.iv.58: “But that slender and small instrument, drawn in the same way by the Turks from the *lyra* with a more slender and smaller ingenuity, that is called in their language a ‘tambura’, containing a shape like a great spoon, has three strings tuned to an octave, a fifth, and a fourth, struck to be sounded by the fingers or a quill.” (My translation, from https://earlymusictheory.org/Tinctoris/texts/deinventioneetusumusice/#showvars0=true&pane0=Edited&pane1=Translation)

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Today is (apparently) Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day, so here are 4 images showing 16th Century Western perceptions of musicians and their instruments (some more uncommon than others) from the continents of America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
From a book showing the 8 pageants held for the Christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse in 1596.
Bavarian State Library: Cod.icon. 340.

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E così oggi sarebbe l' #UncommonInstrumentAwarenessDay :-)

Va ben, tra le varie arpe, qui son con l'arpa salterio, che ho fatto costruire studiando immagini in manoscritti e bassorilievi. Mi ha accompagnato l'anno scorso nel viaggio trobadorico in Monferrato!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/2wbXvD2BPdr161Hq6

#holidays #WorldRangerDay, #NationalRaspberryCakeDay, #NationalCottonCandyDay, #NationalAvocadoDay, #JumpForJellyBeansDay, #UncommonInstrumentAwarenessDay, #ShreddedWheatDay, #MuttDay