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[Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Vowels with macrons are represented in brackets with an equal sign, e.g., [=a], and those with smooth-breathing marks are represented in brackets with an apostrophe, e.g., ['a].]
[Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Vowels with macrons are represented in brackets with an equal sign, e.g., [=a], and those with smoo...
2. Part 2The Syrinx, or Pan's pipes, has been already referred to, and may be described as composed of a certain number of flute-pipes, the sounds being produced by directing the breath...
3. Part 3The antiquity of horns, whether natural or of metal, as instruments for sounding is well known. Their employment in some religious services points to customs that were already o...
4. Part 4There are in this instrument fifty quilled jacks (plectra). The natural keys, thirty in number, are of ebony with gold arcaded fronts, and the compass is of four octaves and app...
5. Part 5The early use of only one string for the highest or melody string may be seen in representations of lutes by Quattro Cento painters. The theorbo, however, was not introduced unt...
6. Part 6This "Spinet," with its original six-legged stand, was made in London about the end of the seventeenth century. "Stephanus Keene Londini Fecit," is inscribed upon the name-board...
7. Part 7An interesting Italian Cither, dated 1700, that may be compared for design, beauty, and workmanship with Lord Tollemache's English cither known as Queen Elizabeth's Lute. It bel...
8. Part 8The State Kettledrum of silver and draped with the Royal banner, represents the only member of the Drum family capable of being tuned to the pitch of the band with a clearly rec...
9. Part 9We learn from Mr. J.A. Van Aalst's comprehensive treatise on Chinese Music, published, it may at first sight appear somewhat oddly, by the Imperial Maritime Customs (Shanghai, 1...
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