Fubarme- 
nic Organ. 
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cal instrument, the first that ever has been capable of 
acing perfect harmony, or music wherein none of 
Te eratale are tem or imperfect, in the widest 
range of modulation, the invention,of the Rey. Hen 
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Liston, minister of Ecclesmachan in Scotland, ; 
. Vol, 
he took out a patent in 1810; (see the Phil. 
xxxvil. p. $28, vol. xxxix. p. 421; and the 
Mag. vol. xxxvi. p. 217). The first of these instruments 
was perfected in Gdiateenh “and, aoe pipe 
for each of the numerous sounds wanted, 12 fin- 
ger-keys in common use were made to act always on as 
many contiguous notes of the scale, by means of six 
pedals, di i OOO & See, ae ENS 
on as flats, or vice versa, in the order of la- 
tion ; si pedals or foot movements being a most im- 
ti ement on the separate hand-slides in the 
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organ oundling na ‘ y and. it is 
somewhat remarkable, that same system and con- 
struction of occurred about the same time to Mr 
David rs pelprageue whapepererve (ecko 
a i same to his improved or, 
or occasionally shifting finger movements from 
one pipe to another, higher or lower than it, by the in- 
terval of a major comma. 
In order to lessen the bulk and of this first 
construction of his organ, Mr Liston afterwards con- 
trived a mode of temporarily lowering the sound of a 
pipe, either one or two commas, spelicontosing it eons 
at pleasure, by means of a shader, brought and held near 
to it, but not touching its orifice ; and for this contrivance 
for diminishing the number of pipes, and for some im- 
pemeemaene phenome was Mr Liston’s patent ob- 
important work, forming a new em in the theory 
of music, and its practice on keyed instruments, is pre- 
xe f the most handsome and voluntary testimo- 
nials of four eminent London who had per- 
formed on and heard the euharmonic organ. The first 
part of this work treats of the perfect scale, tempera- 
ment, and the principles and construction of the euhar- 
meneneryne s:the, soci pestiannts Al Svnee Sasie 
and their progressions, ulations, intervals, and their 
combinations in chords, modulation within the key, and 
ing into the subordinate &c.; and, Yo 
notes Sietentine of the text. engraved examples 
contain full and very explicit instructions for 
aan pe ac tiny A ee 
of modulation, and euharmonic changes ; and the se- 
lection of pieces of music, from many of the best mas~ 
ters, which follow, being all, like the elementary exam- 
ise thet. grocedia them, marked wherever the 
Pe as my apne pcan ret exact per- 
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notes can be instantly varied at pleasure), or performi- Evdliarmo- 
ances wholly by ar Stan sa to re a band ~~ nice 
of 3 whose delightful har- 
mony never, in any considerable , been pro- 
duced, by a single performer, before the exhibition of 
bist apa el aati vn are nude 
euharmonie organ seems an Tequisi 
umed by the writer, 
our best performers of single 
ike the deats of imperfect concords, to exactly fix the 
apa a emer while learning to per- 
, or in practising, as the cessation of beats do for 
the concords ; and, aceordingly, he was most forcibly 
struck on first hearing Mr Liston’s organ, with the pers 
fectly new and peculiar character of several of the dis- 
cords, when heard alone, but more especially when 
combined in certain chords ; the pleasing effect, for in- 
stance, of the IT‘, 7’, IX (and ee and what is more sur 
ising, of the % VI, (and % Il and IV), when coms 
ey Mr Liston describes in pages 57, 69,-73 and 
99 of his Essay, and wherein -he mentions also at page 
56 pov 90) nd 71; the disagreeable effect of 7 (and 
5, IL and IV) in the dominantseventh, and of 2’ in the 
chord of + seventh, &c. vi 
ite and students of the violin, violincello, &c. 
composer this instrument cannot fail of proving at all 
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from Geneva. It contains two: and two cons 
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Since the year 1805, however, a military road, 
icating with the Valais an perenne 
the rocks, commanding, all the 
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of England and France possessed the of 
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