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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1ment is furnished with little touches similar to the pistons used in brass-valved instruments, the naturals being white and the sharps black. An India rubber tube passes to the mouth, from which the wind is supplied. It was made in the Nineteenth Century.
3Flute Polyphonique — Combination. Europe. A Seventeenth Century instrument of Italian origin. It is a combination of five flutes douces inserted in a hollow cross-piece of wood, and having a central mouthpiece. One displayed in the Museo Liceo Musicale, Bologna, is described as follows: The first, third and fifth flutes are parallel, and the second and fourth are placed at an angle. The third, or central flute, is pierced with seven holes in the front and one hole at the back, giving a diatonic scale of two octaves and one note, from A flat to B flat. The second flute is pierced with three small holes in front, giving a diatonic scale from B flat to E natural. The fourth flute has one hole near the bell at the back, and gives A flat, and the fifth flute also, with one hole at the back, gives C. The first flute has no holes and gives E flat. Its invention is attributed to Manfred Seltala, who resided in Rome about the middle of the Seventeenth Century.
5Folding or Traveler's Violin — Bowed Strings. Europe. This is an instrument with a long narrow body, which can be dissected. Body, finger-board, bridge, tail-piece, and tail-pin can be separated from each other and packed snugly in a rectangular box. Even the bow folds up.
7French Horn — Cup Mouthpiece. Europe. The horn now used in the orchestra is provided with valves for lowering the pitch, although the composers of the Eighteenth and the first part of the Nineteenth Centuries wrote for the natural horn. In this instrument the pitch could only be changed by means of crooks, extra pieces of tubing which were attached to the original horn at the end near to the player. This required a certain amount of time, and when a change in key occurred a rest of several bars in the scale was necessitated. Now the change can be made instan-
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