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Experimental Investigation 



[July, 



his legs being on each side of it. I sat close to him on his 

 left, and another observer sat close on his right, the rest of 

 the party being seated at convenient distances round the 

 table. 



For the greater part of the evening, particularly when any- 

 thing of importance was going forward, the observers on 

 each side of Mr. Home kept their feet respectively on his 

 feet, so as to be able to detect his least movement. 



The temperature of the room varied from 68° to 70 F. 



Mr. Home took the accordion between the thumb and 

 middle finger of one hand at the opposite end to the 

 keys (see woodcut, Fig. 1), (to save repetition this will 

 be subsequently called "in the usual manner.") Having 



Fig 1. 



previously opened the bass key myself, and the cage being 

 drawn from under the table so as just to allow the accordion 

 to be passed in keys downwards, it was pushed back as close 

 as Mr. Home's arm would permit, but without hiding his 

 hand from those next to him (see Fig 2). Very soon 

 the accordion was seen by those on each side to be waving 

 about in a somewhat curious manner; then sounds came 

 from it, and finally several notes were played in succes- 

 sion. Whilst this was going on, my assistant got under 



