![]() Biblical references Īn instrument called the kinnor is mentioned a number of times in the Bible, generally translated into English as "harp" or "psaltery", but historically rendered as "cithara". The use of the name throughout the Middle Ages looked back to the original Greek cithara, and its abilities to sway people's emotions. In the Middle Ages, cythara was also used generically for stringed instruments, including lyres, but also including lute-like instruments. By cithara is probably meant the new 12-stringed instrument invented by Melanippides of Melos. The Suda mentions that Phrynis was the first to play the cithara at Athens and won at the Panathenaea. ![]() Phrynis ( Ancient Greek: Φρῦνις) of Lesbos.Two sketches of string instrument players (citharas, lyres or rottas?) from the Utrecht Psalter, drawn by an Anglo-Saxon artist in Reims, c. 850 CE.
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