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Strings Tubular
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Strings Flat
3
Tuning Keys in front are
the playing keys
4
Black keys lowered
by scooping out
the white keys in
that part
5
Plectra rounded
Plectra of steel
— hardened leather
6
Plectra multiplied
mute stop
7
Swell by a pedal
8
Strings tuned by
weights
9
Keys for 1/4 tones
10
Tambour Cover
- the endrawing
it, to make a
swell
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Bells of Metal
or Glass enclosed
in damping sachets
protruded to receive
the strike or rubbing
of a rotating
plectrum
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A Fiddle-Bow
moved by the
foot or moved
by a foreign
power and guided
by the foot
This would leave
the both hands
at liberty - to
play on two necks
and so play treble
& bass together
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Strings made to
vibrate by Wind
as in
1. Aolian Harp.
2. Jew's Harp
Set the plectrum
a vibrating by
Harpsichord Keys:
and instead of the
breath use bellows.
One foot might
guide one bow;
the other, the other.
Identifier: | JB/107/029/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
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