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charcoal bein disturbed when the water is poured ed in. a few years ago, invented a new instrument, consistin Fingeve 
_‘Raohee for ofthe apart wry, wel apie) of a rotative bow of horse NT eradaso Kore 
the use of a ship’s company, It consists of a cask di- act at pleasure u catgut strings, which he denomi- Instrt- 
vi a vertical partition, which does not quite nated ‘a Fingerteyed wal. or claviole. M. Chladni 2 
bottom, but leaves a space for the passage of likewise invented a new instrument, called 2 Keyed 
water. ‘The bottom of the cask is filled with pow- Cylinder.. See the Monthly Magazine, vol. xxviii. p. 
space whe bottom of the partition. Ste fool tad oth ord ere f Finger-k 
at ; ition. The water e ordinary arrangement of F% eys 
ing pera ene of the divisions of this.cask, is fil ~The ordinary torn tre the distonie sale, or that in 
in passing to the other, by being obliged to de- ‘which. five notes and two half notes are comprised in 
scend through the charcoal on one side, ‘and ascend the octave, two whole notes or long keys being asso« 
the other. This machine affords a great quill: ciated together, and three such, with a half tone be- 
tity water; and the known antiseptic quality the tween each of these groups, which are separately called 
charcoal is of great ‘consequence in Temovin, any taint a ditone, and a tritone by Dr Callcott. In the former 
with which water is often affected; and is not of these groups, two, shorter keys ot este.) colour 
easily removed by any other filter, unless indeed it is (now usually , the long keys being white, ) are in- 
made very fine, such a thick filtering-stone, and this serted between the long ones; and, in the tritone, two 
as 
will it the water to pass but very slowly. such short keys are in , by which the whole ~ 
most simple filter for experimental inquiries is douzeave, or range of 12 notes in the octave, is com- 
made by a piece of blotting aper, rolled up to forma pleted, and every other octave, above and below, is but 
isted tight at the point, so that asepennn i See 
pe oat sees Dees ave | the pores of most conspicuous and. best marked finger key 
4 
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E 
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E 
FS 
F 
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is to be p' in. the neck, of in the arrangement above described, is the long one 
i in the middle of the ditone, which belongs to the letter 
ee eee crc D, which is the second of the aa op the fa 
cone ina state. at C, ing to e fin< 
int ther method, which is still more delicate, is ger keys are as follows: viz. 
et ob fy Dar aly a ae ea CK Ey) Fa GH Bp 
this purposes, ® Bunch of coarse cotton threads, as i cael lp nasal 
are used for the wicks. of lamps end candles, is bang =e a va 
over the edge, so that one end of the bunch is Ditone. Tritone. 
a 
i 
z 
¢ 
z 
this it will be drawn up on one side, and conveyed ments are obli to be so tuned, ‘that every shor wote 
the cotton, from the ends of which it will ip y indiscri tely serve either for the rp of that 
very but in a most state of purity from on its left hand, or for the of that on its right, and 
all extraneous mixtures. It is scarcely necessary to even so that E and F, and B and c, may also serve as 
mention, that the cotton must be wetted with the li- the flats or sharps of each other respective 
7- 
begin when it is first put in This very confined nature of the key-board, or Se 
action. Ae eee thick flannel, if itis doubled three tnt a ge eye ln, presented a eis ba oi 
four times, will answer the same purpose particu- provement in the tune of th 
or 
= well. tones, until at length Mr Hawkes roduced his patent 
‘Wood. i 
very i | apparatus has recent! instruments, on which all the five s notes might be 
been invented by Mr James of Edinburgh. A tuned to sharps, and, b: means of a pedal, dhe danltiec- 
' gen Rodan eae yea apr onamenger ip tion of the keys with t strings or pipes might be 
‘the water, which i the pores of the instantly loosed, and the same short keys be made to 
‘wood the pressure of; forcing-pumpy Mr Innes net on another set of those tuned to flats, thereby intro- 
has en this simple machine ‘or purifying oil and = duci 17 sounds in the octave, but with the disadvan- 
_ other tage of being unable to use a flat of any-one note and 
: : a of another at the same time. But these and 
Acad. Par. 1185, Hi 82; 1148, Hi cL dtperory and MeL the eben in py nea of oven Po 
_ chines ut , tom. vii. ); Her of Mr Liston now remedy, by means ot sev 
, of dri vol. ii, p. 230; Caller, Tilloch’s Phil. Maga- dals, adapted to take away two at a time at ba 
zine, vol. vi. p.'240 ; Peacock, Repertory of Aris, yol, end of the scale, (See our article Succession fF ietus), 
Parmer send, ) Nicholson’s Journal, _ and to ly to the same finger-keys two ats in the 
m! Nicholson place 
p. 40; Sir H, Engl Nicholson’s Journal, vol. ix. stance, out of the original scale that we have represent. 
pa. See also. , vol. xiii, p. 140; and Gil- ed above, the first flat pedal will remove GX and CX, 
's Journal der vol. xiii, p..108. (3.F-) and supply in thet places replace rst sharp 
FINDER. See Texescors. — pedal will remove Ey and Bp, and replace their connec- 
yt tion 1e short finger-k s, by Dx and AX, and so 
See Vexrenino. . on, leaving the performer the present uses of the 
-FINGER-Kevep Instruments, in Music, are in key* except during the instants when the pedals 
finger- 
al such as are performed 1 ing with in 
; ea mo Fey rs on However perfect and easy the use of the present 
r . aaa gem 2 key-board snap eta to ee a raved om 
Layering barillons -or carillons, are well known pedals above ates . existed for 
‘of instruments, Mr Johnilsaac Hawkins, ‘simplifying it for the use of children beginners. 
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