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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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1banjo, for which instrument, however, beauty of tone has given place to loud twanging sounds.
3Well known to all that visit Tyrol is the zither, an instrument of great antiquity, supposed by some to have been the same as the "Psalter" of the Bible, and allied to the Psaltery so often seen in early Italian religious pictures. Like others of this class, The zither has a melodic finger board with frets and free accompanying strings for using in chords; the melody is made and played by the fingers; it has a large and varying number of strings, and is capable of effect, of great charm, especially in the Bavarian Ländler and peasant songs.
5The ancient dulcimer is interesting as being the earliest predecessor of our household instrument, the pianoforte, it being allied to this in the fact that the strings are set in vibration by hammers (though in the dulcimer this consists of only one pair, held and wielded directly by the player), and also in the ability to produce sounds both loud and soft. Ancient pictures of the dulcimer gives us some idea of its age; its form has always remained much the same as we meet with it now in Hungarian bands, viz., a four-sided box strung with several strings to each note, with two bridges, and ornamental sound holes. It is laid flat on a table, and its performance by a skilful player is fascinating not merely to the ear, but the eye. The contrast of tone is produced by the fact that the hammers are clothed on their two sides with hard and with soft leather; in Hungary it is called the cembalo, but in some form or other it has been found in almost every country.
7E. MARKHAM LEE.
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