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- Chelys abstract "The chelys (Greek: χέλυς, Latin: testudo), was a stringed musical instrument, the common lyre of the ancient Greeks, which had a convex back of tortoiseshell or of wood shaped like the shell. The word chelys was used in allusion to the oldest lyre of the Greeks, which was said to have been invented by Hermes. According to the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (475) he was attracted by sounds of music while walking on the banks of the Nile, and found they proceeded from the shell of a tortoise across which were stretched tendons which the wind had set in vibration.The word has been applied arbitrarily since classic times to various stringed instruments, some bowed and some twanged, probably owing to the back being much vaulted. Athanasius Kircher (Musurgia universalis, 486) applied the name of chelys to a kind of viol with eight strings. Numerous representations of the chelys lyre or testudo occur on Greek vases, in which the actual tortoiseshell is depicted; a good illustration is given in Le Antichità di Ercolano (vol. i. p1. 43). Propertius (iv. 6) calls the instrument the lyra testudinea. Joseph Justus Scaliger was probably the first writer to draw attention to the difference between the chelys and the kithara.The acoustics of an authentically reconstructed ancient Greek tortoise-shell lyre, known as chelys, was investigated recently. Modern experimental methods were employed, such as electronic speckle pattern laser interferometry and impulse response, to extract the vibrational behavior of the instrument and its main parts. Additionally, the emitted sound from the instrument was recorded, under controlled conditions, and spectrally analyzed. Major findings include the concentration of the emitted sound between 400 Hz and 800 Hz, with an amplitude modified in a manner consistent with the experimentally measured vibrational characteristics of the instrument’s sound box and bridge. The experimental results validate the historical evidence that chelys was used in Greek antiquity as an accompaniment instrument to the human voice.".
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- Chelys first "Kathleen last=Schlesinger".
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- Chelys page "26".
- Chelys volume "6".
- Chelys wstitle "Chelys".
- Chelys subject Category:Ancient_Greek_musical_instruments.
- Chelys subject Category:Lyres.
- Chelys subject Category:String_instruments.
- Chelys type AncientGreekMusicalInstruments.
- Chelys type Artifact100021939.
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- Chelys type Harp103495258.
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- Chelys type Instrumentality103575240.
- Chelys type Lyre103699280.
- Chelys type Lyres.
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- Chelys type StringInstruments.
- Chelys type StringedInstrument104338517.
- Chelys type Whole100003553.
- Chelys comment "The chelys (Greek: χέλυς, Latin: testudo), was a stringed musical instrument, the common lyre of the ancient Greeks, which had a convex back of tortoiseshell or of wood shaped like the shell. The word chelys was used in allusion to the oldest lyre of the Greeks, which was said to have been invented by Hermes.".
- Chelys label "Chelys".
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- Chelys sameAs Χέλυς_(όργανο).
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- Chelys sameAs Q736802.
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- Chelys depiction Britannica_Lyre_Chelys_or_Lyre.png.
- Chelys isPrimaryTopicOf Chelys.
