dds a hollow gourd to his weapon, This paradise of old instrumentsis not an idle dream. It lies in agarden pavilion, part of an oldmansion in the heart of New-England, where music in thePuritanical past met with butlittle favor, but where now,alter all these stern years, tin-suppressed strains of… … and invents the sound box. The dis-covery of poliphony in one and thesame string produced by alterationof its length on a fingerboard(often supplied with frets) byplucking the cord with thefingers or plectra of wood,metal or bone—on the harp.lute, either, guitar, psaltery,and their prototypes of…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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