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Definition of Barbiton

Barbiton
Barbiton Bar"bi*ton, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Mus.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

Meaning of Barbiton from wikipedia

- The barbiton, or barbitos (Gr: βάρβιτον or βάρβιτος; Lat. barbitus), is an ancient stringed instrument related to the lyre known from Gr**** and Roman classics...
- instruments aulete (aulos player) aulos (contemporaneous wind instrument) barbiton (b**** kithara) kithara (professional instrument) lyre (folk instrument)...
- which is a smaller version of the professional cithara and eastern-Aegean barbiton, or "lyre" can refer generally to all three instruments as a family. The...
- Bela barbiton is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. The length of the s**** attains 8.5 mm, its diameter 3 mm...
- sometimes compared to an oboe. When string instruments were pla****, the barbiton was the traditional instrument. Slaves and boys also provided service and...
- training. Barbiton A larger, b****-version of the cithara, considered to be east-Ionian, an exotic and somewhat foreign instrument. The barbiton was the...
- wall three female dancers, one male dancer and a male musician with a barbiton appear. They are placed between small trees filled with birds. On the right...
- musical instruments can be classified into the following categories: Aulos Barbiton Chelys Cithara (or Kithara) Crotalum Epigonion Harp Kanonaki Lyre Pan flute...
- are made of wood. Examples of yoke lutes are the lyre, the kithara, the barbiton, and the phorminx from Ancient Greece, and the biblical kinnor, all of...
- Etruscan musician with a barbiton, Tomb of the Triclinium, Tarquinia...