The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 516
Fig. ^01.—Sam5i/feor Sackbut, of the Ninth Century. (Boulogne MS.)1 was the one most imposing in its nature, and destined to the most gloriouscareer. The only instrument of this kind known by the ancients was thewater-organ, in which a key-board of twenty-six keys corresponded to thesame number of… … Fig. 392.—German blowing a Military Trumpet. Drawn and Engraved by J. Amman. produced most varied somids. Nero, it is said, spent a whole day examiningand admiring the mechanism of an instrument of this kind. The water-organ, although described and commended by Yitruvius, wasnot much in use in the…
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