The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 429
fitted round the curved ends ascarefully as the sides are built into the back and belly of a violin. 424 ^OLIAN HARPS, AND HOW TO MAKE THEM. In Kirchers harp, the older form, the screen fits into a window, the instrumentis hung on an iron rod, and has a great many strings stretched over broad… … i-ij^. 4. but it is of much earlier date. It is, in truth, a very obvious contrivance, easilymade, and not susceptible of much improvement. In our last figure we give itslatest form, which differs from the others only in the arrangement of the screens.These are devised to throw a strong draught on…
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