"Ribible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ages instrumental music can scarcely be said to have existed as an art. Musical instruments—"giterne and ribible"—were known and played upon. "Fiddlers, players, cobblers, and other debauched persons" tramped the country and appeared at festivals in company with jugglers and mountebanks. Towards the beginning of the sixteenth century, private orchestras were maintained by the noble and the ...
— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight |
