sambuke (sambuk)

[L. sambuca, rusion inSyrian sabka, Heb. sabeka, a stringed strument, probably a large harp, used in Asia and introduced into Italy by the Romans. The name has been applied to various stringed instruments,. such as a lyre, a dulcimer, and a triangular harp, or trigon. Stainer and Barrett. And whatsoever ye judge, this I am sure, that lutes, harps, all manner of pipes, barbitons, sambukes , with other instruments every one, which standeth by fine and quick fingering, be condemned of Aristotle, as not to be brought in and used among them which study for learning and virtue. Ascham , Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 26. It stands