Gingras (instrument)

Gingras (alternatively Gingri) was a type of flute used by the Phoenicians, particularly in their mourning rituals. Information about the gingras comes from second-century AD Greek rhetorician Athenaeus in his work The Deipnosophists, where he reports the accounts of Xenophon, Democleides, Corinna, Bacchylides, Antiphanes, Menander, Amphis, and Axionicus about the instrument and its sound.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 4.174 Translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1854)
  2. ^ Michaelides, Solon (1978). The Music of Ancient Greece. Faber & Faber. p. 123.
  3. ^ Franklin, John C. (2020). "Ancient Greek Music and the Near East". In Lynch, Tosca A.C.; Rocconi, Eleonora (eds.). A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music (1 ed.). Wiley. pp. 229–241. doi:10.1002/9781119275510.ch17. ISBN 978-1-119-27547-3. Retrieved 2024-05-07.