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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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1many families of instruments, obtained from side holes in the same manner as on the flute and clarionet, but such instruments died out during last century, the ophicleide having been the latest survival. In these each hole as opened virtually shortened the instruments, and thus a basis for a new harmonic series was obtained.
3During the last century methods of bringing extra lengths of tubing into the vibrating column, by various valve actions, were devised, and of these the direct-acting piston valve is now far the most widely used. Its various original defects have been overcome, and without the brass valve instruments military bands, as we now understand them, could not exist.
5The one cup-blown instrument capable of giving a scale, which has not changed in principle and very little in detail since it was used with the old zincken, or cornetti, is the trombone. As a great portion of the length of this instrument is cylindrical, the introduction of a shifting slide is possible, and the various lengths thus obtainable afford the means of altering its fundamental note, and introducing new series of harmonics by which the scale is completed.
7D. I. BLAIKLEY.
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