sac’rist

Music librarian, and copyist of a church. sa’créd music. Religious music. Saite (zi’-té), pl. Saiten,G. String(s). Sai’ten instrument. A stringed instrument. S.-chor. A group of strings tuned in unison. S.-fe el, or -halter. Tailpiece. S.-harmo’nika, A key-board instr. with diminuendo device, inv. by Stein, 1788. S.-orgel. A trichord piano with a fourth string for each note. This string is fanned by a reed of the same pitch, with leather head, thus obtaining a sustained tone, capable of swell and decrease. Treadles and bellows control this part of the instr., which may serve as piano, or organ, or both, or part of either. This instr. was inv. by a Pru ian, Karl Giimbel, 18090. S.-klang, or -ton. The sound of a string. S.-spieler. Player on a stringed instr. saitig (zi’-tikh). Stringed.