Plan for luilding an Iron Bridge across the Menai Strait. 11 



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if executed thus ^^^^^^:=p=p^ e^^" '^y Rameau 



and Tartini themselves, would instantly upset their reputation. 



Proi'. 7th. That the audible notes or satellilcs, viz. the up- 

 per 12th and 17th major, attendant upon every existing note or 

 sound, are Nature's oivn harmonics, or concords. 



Wherefore the 12th and 17th of every original note employed 

 may be introduced into our music — as exemplified by our larger 

 organs. 



PROP.Sth, That the satellites or 12ths and 17ths major of every 

 original note, though called Nature's oiun harmonics, are not 

 CONCORDS, and cannot be introduced; as may be exemplified by 

 violins and a violoncello. 



And therefore — if in any piece whatsoever, the said Tiths and 

 17ths were uniformly set down, and the piece arranged for these 

 instruments so as to represent the compound stops of an organ, 

 — each violin, as well as the violoncello, playing with equal loud- 

 ness — and duplicates of no one note being permitted for the pur- 

 pose of increasing the noise of that note, — we should scare the 

 Hottentots. 



Here end these few propositions, which, although seemingly 

 contradictory, our well informed musicians will, no doubt, recon- 

 cile to our understanding. But how happens n that any piece of 

 music horrific on the violin and violoncello •should be tolerated on 

 the organ? The answer is easy. A little salutary noise can 

 always be obtained upon the organ, thrnagh a variety of roaring 

 pipes called slops, to '' soften and conceal" our discordant con- 

 cords. [Soften and conceal are the very argumentative terms of 

 our Encyclopcedia Britannica, article " Harmony."] And in- 

 deed, if in the al)0ve case of our simjile violins and violoncello, a 

 sufficient number of drums, trumpets, bugles, and French- horns 

 be introduced— not delicately to soften and conceal, but vocife- 

 rously to roar down those feebler instruments, — we shall imme- 

 diately and miraculously convert an otherwise intolerable jargon 

 into the most exquisite and scientific harmony ! ! ! 



II. Report hj the Select Committee of the House of Commons, 

 on Mr. Telford's Plan for building a Hanging Iron 

 Bridge acrois the Menai Strait *. 



I our Committee have proceeded toincpiirc into the subject of 

 the papers referred to them by the House, containing Mr. Tel- 



• From the Third Report from tlie Select C'oiiiinittce on the Uond from 

 London to Holyhead, Hie. L'!nh April iHl'.^ 



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