Mugnī

Mugnī (Pers.), obs. chordophone of Persia, described in a 14th-c. musical ms. (Kanz al tufah) as a combined rubāb-qānūn-nuzha, i.e., a zither in lute form. It had a long, bulging body, flat, wide neck, and 39 open strings arranged as on the qānūn, passing over a diagonally placed bridge (170). Sachs, Curt. The History of Musical Instruments. New York, 1940.