一切經音義 25.60

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簫瑟（小彫反說文編管為之像鳳之翼瑟音蝨庖羲造瑟也其瑟長八尺二寸四十五絃黃帝使素女鼓之悲不能止改為七尺二寸二十五絃也）。

Panpipes and zither (簫 is pronounced *xiǎo* + *diāo* fanqie [*xiāo*]. The *Shuowen* says: "Pipes bound together, shaped like the wings of a phoenix." 瑟 is pronounced *sè*. Baoxi crafted the zither; his zither was eight feet two inches long, with forty-five strings. The Yellow Emperor had the Plain Maiden play it, and her sadness could not be halted, so he altered it to seven feet two inches with twenty-five strings.)