<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Note that “fiddle” is the more generic term for any small stringed instrument held at the shoulder, chest, or on a forearm and played with a bow. It typically has three or four strings. A violin is a fiddle, as is a rebec, or a pochet, though the violin-sized member of the viola da gamba family is not a fiddle because it is held like a miniature cello, upright on the lap, and it usually has six strings<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">… because I know you were all dying to know this.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 24, 2021, at 12:10 PM, nIqolay Q <<a href="mailto:niqolay0@gmail.com" class="">niqolay0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:02 AM SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">Not instruments of the plucking kind, but qepHom 2019 gave us <b class="">ngItHel,</b>
a stringed instrument that is played with a <b class="">ngItHel naQ,</b> a
bow. I guess that it is a class of instrument rather than a
specific one, so a violin and a double bass are both <b class="">ngItHel.
</b>Presumably, one can also <b class="">pang</b> the <b class="">SIrgh</b> of a <b class="">ngItHel.
</b>Otherwise, I see nothing that obviously touches on this.</div></blockquote><div class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">As you said earlier, we can't necessarily determine what these instruments are supposed to be just by their puns, but <b class="">ngItHel</b> written in xifan hol is "fithel", which is an archaic word for a fiddle. <br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Additionally, the pamphlet from qepHom 2019 suggests that it refers specifically to a violin-like instrument:</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.qephom.de/book/qepHom2019_p_15.jpg" class="">http://www.qephom.de/book/qepHom2019_p_15.jpg </a><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">"They used one of these [<b class="">ngItHel</b>] in the production of the opera <b class="">'u'</b>." and the accompanying picture shows something violin-sized. <br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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