Symponia

Symponia the symponia (also simpunia, sumponia) of biblical times was for a long time considered to have been a bagpipe (a nonexistent instr. in those days) and subsequently an orchestral performance rather than an instr. More recently Dr. Edith Gerson-Kiwi has suggested that it could have been a form of *magrepha, if we admit the possibility of the word being derived not from Gk. symphonia but from Gk. siphon, reed, artery, indicative of a wind instr., and that *zampogna might likewise be…