ICBACARRE — Plucked Strings. Africa. A crude lute. One in the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a body made from a round tin can, the opening being covered with parchment. It has a wooden neck with one peg and a fiber string. This curious affair came from Mozambique.
ICHI-GEN-KIN or SOURNA-KOTO — Plucked Strings. Japan. The body is a flat piece of wood, having in some cases a convex upper surface, and standing upon four slender feet. A single silken string is stretched from a peg inserted near one end of the body, to the opposite end, being elevated meantime by a movable bridge before passing through an eyelet to the under side, where it is fastened. The string is plucked with a cylindrical ivory tsume. This instrument is said to have been invented by an exiled nobleman to drive away his melancholy. In the original the string was stretched across a bat which he caught in his cell. The Chinese claim that this was the departed spirit of a similar instrument of their own, which had appeared to the prisoner and had been snared by him. Specimens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art have a length of over forty inches and a width of about one-seventh of this.
ICHI-NO-TSUZUMl, NI-NO-TSUZUMI, SAN-NO-TSUZUMl — Vibrating Membranes. Japan. Three sizes of dumb-bell shaped drums. used in place of the larger drums when the orchestra is standing.
IKUTA-KOTO — Plucked Strings. Japan. This is found almost exclusively in the west of Japan, although occasion-ally used by ladies in the eastern part. The dainty affair is covered with elaborate lacquer designs, and the strings are of different colors, which aid the beginner in remembering them. They are plucked with ivory or tortoise shell tsume set in lacquered leather stalls. See koto.
INVENTION HORN — Cup Mouthpiece. Europe. Name derived from an invention whereby the crooks or " certain accessory pieces of tubing applied for the purpose of altering the length of the tube and raising and lowering the pitch " were attached to the body of the instrument instead of to the mouthpiece. It was produced in 1760.
