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    The sambuca (also sambute, sambiut, sambue, sambuque, or sambuke) was an ancient stringed instrument of Asiatic origin. The term sambuca is also applied...
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  • Sambuca is an alcoholic drink. Sambuca may also refer to: Sambuca (siege engine), ancient naval weapon Sambuca (instrument), an ancient stringed instrument...
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    The sambuca (Ancient Greek: σαμβύκη) was a ship-borne siege engine which was invented by Heracleides of Tarentum and was first used unsuccessfully by...
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    musical instrument in the yoke lutes family. It was a seven-stringed professional version of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate...
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    Sciacca. The origins of the name Sambuca are uncertain. The main assumptions: from the Greek stringed instrument Sambuca ; or from Sambucus, commonly referred...
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    Indeed I don't. (A) What, do not know a nablas? You know no good; perhaps a sambuca-player You never have heard of either! — The Adulterer by Philemon, in...
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  • Epigonion Harp Kanonaki Lyre Pan flute (Syrinx) Pandura Phorminx Rhoptron Sambuca Salpinx Sistrum Psaltery Tambourine Trigonon Water organ (Hydraulis) Roman...
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  • Pamiri rubab Rudra veena (India) Ruan Sallaneh (Iran) Salterio (Mexico) Sambuca Sanshin (Okinawa, Japan) Sanxian (China) Sapeh Saraswati veena (India])...
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    Ancient Greek harps (category Ancient Greek musical instruments)
    written sources include pektis, trigonos, magadis, sambuca, epigonion. These names could denote instruments of this type. Unlike the lyres, the harp was rarely...
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  • Symphonia (category Lost and extinct musical instruments)
    in Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae under the entries for tympanum and sambuca. "Symphonia" or chifonie was applied during the 13th and 14th centuries...
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