Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 270
re inserted inthe gourd of a calabash. In each of these pipes isa reed or tongue of gold or copper, which, by itsvibration, causes the sound, as in our cabinetorgans ; beneath this reed a hole is made in thebamboo, and when this hole is left open the airrushes out through it without making any… … A CHINESE . BELL-RINGER PRACTICING ON THE king. But what instruments do they use? asked the Chinese should not have added harmony tothe mother. Are they at all like ours? their melodies, but they never have. 250 A STRANGE MUSIC. [January,
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