Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Books › A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904 › scan 101

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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904

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1marching. As with other instruments of its class, it is effective in inverse proportion to the frequency of its employment. It may be described as a short section of a large cylinder with a parchment head at either end, tightened by a bracing of cords from one to the other. The larger the drum, the better the sound.
3The Kettledrum is a cauldron-shaped vessel of copper covered in with parchment, which can be stretched more or less tightly by screws placed round the circumference, the membrane yielding then a higher or lower definite note. In cavalry bands two drums are used, one on each side of the horse's neck. In orchestras two drums are required (of different sizes), and often three are used. The larger of the two drums should be able to go down to F, and the smaller to the F above, giving a range of an octave to the two.
5Included in what the French call the "batterie" are the Cymbals—circular plates of hammered gunmetal which ought to be played with a brushing instead of a hitting movement—the Triangle, the Tambourine—which may be played in several ways, either struck, shaken, or lightly rubbed with the fingers so that the head and "gingles" both sound. Castanets, Carillon or Glockenspiel, a series of small steel bars struck with a hammer, Xylophone or wooden Harmonica like the carillon, but with bars of hard wood, Typhophone or Celesta with the same principle applied to the keyboard, and Gong, used only for melodramatic effects, as in the Finale to the Fourth Symphony of Tschaikowsky.
7ERNEST CLARKE.

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