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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1primarily the instrument of the home and will remain so for some time to come, yet grander effects, especially in adaptations of orchestral selections, can be produced by the self-playing organ, which perhaps substantiates the claim of the makers that the instrument is much more satisfactory than the piano player.
3The player has even been applied to the pipe organ, although owing to the great cost and the existence of so many large organs the combination is not in general use.
5Po, Hsing, Seaou-Po — Sonorous Substances. China. These cymbals are made on quite the same principle as Occidental cymbals. They are said to have come originally from India. Their use is most conspicuous (and particularly disagreeable) to foreigners at theatrical performances. On numerous occasions such as after a quotation, a verse, or a command the cymbals are sounded ten to fifteen times in rapid succession, nearly drowning the voice of the actor.
7Pochette — Bowed Strings. France. A miniature instrument having a body either boat-shaped or violin-shaped. From Kricher in 1650 is gained the idea that the first named is the older form. Its outlines give rise to the theory of its descent from an Arabian instrument. It was easily portable and was looked upon as a boon by dancing masters, for it could be played while displaying the steps. Pochettes have gone out of use, but the beauties lavished upon them by the makers render them dear to the heart of the collector, the date of their favor being the Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Century.
9Pochette d'Amour — Bowed. Europe. Pochette with sympathetic strings. See pochette.
11Poet's Viol — See rebab esh sha'er.
13Pommer — Double-beating Reeds. Europe. This was known before the Sixteenth Century. The bass instrument was a forerunner of the oboe and bassoon. It consisted of a double-beating reed fitted into a conical tube. In the contrabass it attained to great length, being sometimes ten
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