"Phorminx" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Greek music from the earliest to the latest days was the lyre. In the oldest times, those of Homer and Hesiod, it was called phorminx, which is believed to have been the form so often represented on Greek vases of a turtle shell with side pieces like horns, an instrument having but little effective resonance. The later form was the so-called cithara, the most common shape of which is that made familiar to ...
— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews |
