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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1beneath which are stretched the strings attached to the central bar. The strings are tuned ordinarily by means of cords twisted around the bar and ornamented with tassels. It is played sometimes lying upon the ground and sometimes resting upon the shoulder.
3BYAKUSHI — Soronous Substances. Japan. Nine long, tablet-shaped pieces of hard wood, strung together and used as clappers. The byakushi is occasionally made of bamboo.
5CABINET ORGAN — Free Reeds. America. One of the names by which the reed organ is known.
7CABINET ORGAN — Beating Reed. Europe. An instrument of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The name was applied to a premature device, within the case of which was a cabinet of drawers and a cupboard. One had a small removable spinet, which could be played either in its place or after removal.
9CALASCIONE — Plucked Strings. Italy. This belonged properly to Italy. The body was that of the ordinary lute, but with a smaller neck. It was equipped with two or three gut strings, and was plucked sometimes with a plectrum, sometimes with the fingers. It greatly resembles the Egyptian nefir. Its use began to be discontinued in the Eighteenth Century. See lute.
11CALLIOPE — Vertical Flute. American. This was invented by J. C. Stoddart, of Worcester, Mass., who received a patent for the same Oct. 9, 1855. This far from artistic instrument was suggested to the inventor by the steam whistles which herald the approach of a locomotive, or announce the dinner-hour in a factory. With unconscious irony, this remarkable device was given the name of the muse of epic poetry, famed for the sweetness of her voice. Stoddart conceived that these whistles could be so arranged that when the steam impinged against their thin edges the diatonic scale would be produced. Over the top of a steam chest was arranged, according to the number of whistles, valve chambers having double poppet valves. A small stem passed from each of the valves through the
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