On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:02 AM SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
Not instruments of the plucking kind, but qepHom 2019 gave us *ngItHel,* a stringed instrument that is played with a *ngItHel naQ,* 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 *ngItHel. *Presumably, one can also *pang* the *SIrgh* of a *ngItHel. *Otherwise, I see nothing that obviously touches on this.
As you said earlier, we can't necessarily determine what these instruments are supposed to be just by their puns, but *ngItHel* written in xifan hol is "fithel", which is an archaic word for a fiddle. Additionally, the pamphlet from qepHom 2019 suggests that it refers specifically to a violin-like instrument: http://www.qephom.de/book/qepHom2019_p_15.jpg "They used one of these [*ngItHel*] in the production of the opera *'u'*." and the accompanying picture shows something violin-sized.