Scientific American. {AuGcusT 28, 1897. 138 exeellent reproduction of the mandolin effect, the large population. tremolo being very perfect. The fingering of the first string is not done by hand, but by the mouth, or rather by an attachment worked by the mouth. This consists of an L shaped piece of… … of producing this exquisite effect, and the greatest such as Herodotus, Strabo, credit is due to the mechanical ingenuity of the invent- Mutianus, and Pliny, and or that the same result should have been obtained on ment of the New York Public Library, and the patrons repeated in monkish legends, or…
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