Dulcigurdy, an instrument depicted in 17th century musical texts, often mislabeled as strohfiddel due to its proximity to a xylophone in a 1618 engraving in Syntagma Musicum.
Syntagma Musicum is a book by the German musicologist Michael Praetorius, published in Wittenberg and Wolfenbüttel in three parts between 1614-1620.
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The soundbox has an hourglass shape and looks very much like the illustration of a nyckelharpa in Michael Praetorius's Syntagma Musicum III of 1620 (where it is called Schlüssel fiddel).
It is depicted in Praetorius' music dictionary Syntagma Musicum published in 1619.
Michael Praetorius was not enthusiastic about the sound of the tenor cornett, he describes it as "bullocky and horn-like" in his Syntagma Musicum of 1619.
The composer Michael Praetorius refers to him in the third volume of his Syntagma musicum.