_All ancient writers who mention the progressive state of music in
Greece, are unanimous in celebrating the talents of TERPANDER. Several
writers tell us that he added three strings to the lyre, which before
his time had but four. Plutarch, in his “Laconic Institutions,” informs
us that Terpander was fined by the Ephori for his innovations. However,
in his Dialogue on Music, he likewise tells us that the same musician
appeased a sedition at Sparta, among the same people, by the persuasive
strains which he sung and played to them upon that occasion. There
seems no other way of reconciling these two accounts, than by supposing
that he had, by degrees, refined the public taste, or depraved his own
to the level of his hearers._――BURNEY.