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"scala." On the balcony in the conrt of the palace in which is kept the Northern 

 Museum two members of th(^ "capella" blow tuues on two of those primeval horus 

 to the delight of the inhabitants. 



Professor Starr says of one of these concerts: 



AVe had the good fortune to be present. The conrt of the museum was filled with 

 hearers. Wonderful, is it uot, that horns two thousand years old, buried for long 

 centuries in peat bogs, should, after this long silence, still be capable of giving out 

 clear, ringing, even sweet, tones.' 



The age of bronze is supposed to have begun in Scandinavia about 

 1500 B. C. It has been divided, for convenience of description, into 

 the first and second periods, corresponding in some degree with the 

 same ages in continental Europe, especially France, to which M. de 

 Mortillet has given the nanies (1) Morgien and (2) Halstattien. These 

 subdivisions have been made principally from the inspection of the 

 objects themselves, their development, and their associations. It is 

 believed by those who have studied the subject with the greatest 

 attention and the most in detail that whencesoever the bronze may 

 have come and howsoever the knowledge to work it came, that most oi 

 the objects found in Scandinavia were made in the country; conse- 

 quently, are of a culture and art indigenous thereto, and that this 

 applies to both periods. N^Barly all bronze objects were made by cast- 

 ing. It is not until near the close of the age of bronze that evidences 

 of hammering as a method of manufacture have been found. Hammer- 

 ing and drilling were employed after the object had been cast, and for 

 the purpose of putting it together. Many molds in which objects were 

 cast have been found throughout the country, but, so far as known 

 to the author, none which were used for casting these trumpets or 

 horns. A moment's consideration will make apparent the difficulty 

 in casting. Their length, the size of the piece, the thinness of wall, 

 the extent of core, together with the exactness required to make the 

 sonorous quality, not only so that they shall sound, but that they shall 

 make a note within a given scale — a consideration of these difficulties, 

 and the ability displayed by their makers in overcoming them, should 

 increase largely our appreciation of the capacity of the workmen. One 

 of the most beautiful specimens of bronze vases of elegant form and 

 choice decoration was found in the Island of Funen with the core of 

 clay still in it, thus enabling its discoverers to determine with cer- 

 tainty the method of its manufacture. The casting had failed in part 

 and was never completed. The many other similar vases which were 

 successfully made is proof of the capability of the workman. No evi- 

 dences of the art of soldering during the bronze age have been found 

 in Scandinavia. Kot only have no soldered specimens been found, 

 but many objects were repaired without solder. Two methods were 

 employed, riveting, or by the apparently more difficult process, described 

 elsewhere, of pouring molten metal on the junction of the broken i)ieco-; 



' Popular Science Monthly, LXVII, p. 22, May, 1895. 

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