396 Ow the Invention of the Euphon,’ 
tones, mn both, a milk white kind of glafs. In a word, the 
euphon has fome refemblance to a {mall writing-defk. 
When opened, the above-mentioned glafs tubes, of the 
thicknefs of the barrel of a quill and about fixteen inches 
long, are feen in a horizontal pofition. They are wetted 
with water, by means of a fponge, and ftroked with the 
wet fingers in the direétion of their length, fo that the in- 
ereafe of the tone depends merely on the ftronger or weaker 
preflure, and the flower or quicker movement of the fingers. 
The number of tubes at prefent is forty-two. In the back 
part there is a perpendicular founding-board divided in the 
middle, through which the tubes pafs. Ht appears therefore 
that the euphon ought not to be confidered as an altered or 
improved harmonica, but as a totally new and different 
inftrument. In regard to fweetnefs of found, it approaches 
very near to the harmonica; but it has feveral advantages 
which no unprejudiced perfon, who examines both inftru- 
ments, will deny. 
In the firft place it is fimpler, both in regard to its con- 
Rrudtion and the movement necetfary to produce the found, 
-as neither turning nor ftamping is required, but merely the 
movement of the finger. 
2. It produces its found fpeedier; fo that as foon as it is 
touched you may have the tone as full as the inftrument is 
capable of giving it; whereas, in the harmonica, the tones, 
particularly the lower ones, muft be made to increafe gra~ 
dually. 
3. It has more diftinétnefs in quick paflages, becaufe the 
tones do not refound fo long as in the harmonica, where the 
found of one low tone is often heard when you with only to 
hear the following tone. 
“4.'The unifon is purer than is generally the cafe in the 
harmonica, where it 1s difficult to have perfect glaffes, which 
in every part give like tones with mathematical exactnefs. 
dJt'is-however'as difficult to be tuned as the harmonica. 
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