Dick's parlor exhibitions containing a large and varied collection of elegant home amusements .. (1882)
Dick, William Brisbane. [from old catalog] · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 138
PUNCH AND JUDY. 132 give to the different characters. It will probably be some time before he can acquire the peculiar squeak of Punch, which is generally supposed to be produced by an instrument called " a squeaker/' which requires a great deal of practice to render … Fig. 3. effective, and we therefore recommend the performer to trust to his own powers of mimicry. With regard to the musical ac- companiments, the amateur showman should get some kind sis- ter or cousin to sit at the piano, the notes of which are much more pleasing than those of the Pandean pipes…
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