FINDINGS OF THE EAR 



must undergo in passing through language 

 to the mind of another. 



Passing to a survey of the mechanical de- 

 vices for producing audible music, one finds 

 man giving abundant proof that he has in- 

 herited from mother nature her gift of 

 working miracles. Witness the evolution of 

 the modern piano from the simple mono- 

 chord, not to mention the large number of 

 stringed instruments and the more vocifer- 

 ous devices used by brass bands. 



Weighing the effects produced by all these 

 instruments, one discovers that even in their 

 minute detail man has duplicated nature's 

 methods; for precisely what she does with 

 her stops and pedals he does with his. Be- 

 tween the simple music of the lute and that 

 of an orchestra, one may get approximately 

 the same range of variation which nature 

 achieves between the music of a rill and her 

 ocean oratorios. In the violin, one may 

 claim that man has bettered his instruction, 

 establishing a rivalry which might well make 

 nature look to her laurels, were she so fool- 

 ish as to care for such baubles. As it is, all 



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