ECHELETTE — French name for the xylophone, which see.
EKA-TARA — Plucked Strings. India. The body is small and globular, and is furnished with a long narrow neck, which passes through the body and projects on the lower side. A single string is stretched from end to end of the neck.
EKIREI - Sonorous Substances. Japan. A hollow metal ring is formed of two concave sections joined at the edges. Several of them are attached to a harness, and jingle together.
ELEKE — Sonorous Substances. Africa. A zanze of the Mpongwe Tribe, Gaboon, French Kongo. See zanze. EL OUD — Arabian name for the lute.
ENGLISH GUITAR — See cither.
E'OUD — Plucked Strings. Syria. A lute played with a plectrum. It has twelve strings, four being of wire and eight of gut. See lute.
E'RAQYEH — Double-Beating Reed. Africa. Found in Egypt, and consisting of a cylindrical tube of wood, with a small air chamber situated just beneath the mouthpiece.
ERH-H'SIEN or HU-HU — Bowed Strings. China. A two-stringed violin, in principle identical with the hu-ch'in, but it never has more than two strings. It varies in construction, being sometimes a hollow bamboo tube, in which case it is called hu-hu, and sometimes half of a cocoanut shell, when it is called t'i-ch'in. It is popular all over China, the poorer classes being exceptionally fond of it.
ESRAR — Bowed Strings. India. The body of wood is rounded at the base, the sides curve in toward the center, and the belly is of skin. The neck is broad and flat, and is furnished with several metal frets. This instrument is well provided with strings, sometimes having fifteen.
E'SUZU — See waniguchi.
EUPHONIUM — Cup Mouthpiece. Europe. The smallest of the tubas in B flat, having a compass from B2 flat to F. Wagner in his scores calls for numerous sizes of tubas, but ordinarily the euphonium is found in bands, and in military music. See tuba.
