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China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)

Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792, Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 39

An illustration from China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary, 1812, leaf 39
usicalc2 ^4f CHINA, ITS COSTUME, instruments of them. Those which areyellow without any shade are mostvalued. They are shaped to give themthe desired sound of the gamut; but itis difficult to accomplish an octave withthem. The Chinese historians pique them-selves very much on all nature havingbeen… … p m ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 25 OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 6. The Pan-Kou, a kind of large Kettle-drum^ which goes before the emperor on state days:it is also carried before the viceroys an^principal mandarins on solemn occasionswhereon they represent the sovereign. Thisinstrument is surmounted by a…

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