Category:Philomel (musical instrument)

Philomel 

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Philomel (French: Philomèle; German: Philomele or Stahlgeige; Italian: Filomela) is the name of a musical instrument similar to the violin, but having four steel, wire strings.^[1] It has been invented around Monaco di Baviera in the middle of the nineteenth century.

There is also an alto philomel corresponding to the viola. The bowed melodion, also known as streich melodion, is similar to the philomel, and has four steel strings of the same accordance as the violin, but arranged in inverse order; instead of being held like the violin and philomel, under the chin, it is placed on the knees of the performer, so that a hook under the fingerboard rests against the table.

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