272 Indian Music. | [March, 
the British Museum, and consists of a double row of pipes which 
yield the following tones: 
+ 
a) 2 ba ae 
Z 2 8 2 eed 
TS 8 = r] iiss 
ANT prs p I 
e eae ps g pr: 
+ 
in which, it will be observed, the fourth and seventh are wanting; 
but another example in the extensive Peruvian collection of H. 
G. Clay, Esq., of Philadelphia, is made of four delicate reeds 
attached to a necklace of wampum, which emit the notes: 
ro 
—— 
ir. g AIER | 
ye e 
including the fourth, but omitting the seventh. Dr. Tschudi, in 
his great work on Peru, figures a syrinx composed of eight 
pipes, with a highly ornamented base and extra stops in the side. 
Some of the modern Indians of Peru (the Qguichua and Aymara 
use a musical instrument somewhat resembling a flageolet (gque ) 
with which they make most melancholy music. Their yaravis, o 
tunes, are generally in the minor key, and when heard at a dis- 
tance, or in the rarified atmosphere of the mountains in the 
night, are exceedingly impressive. Another instrument (the 
chirimia), a sort of clarionet, produces an even more melancholy | 
music than the gguena and is generally played in concert of many | 
instruments, while the latter is played in pairs. “The melodies 
played by these Indians,” writes Sefi. Don Frederico Blume, -e 
very peculiar and sentimental. It seems the performers are Wee? 
ing over past glories. I was running the preliminary line for the 
Arequipa R. R., in 1861, and stopped over night at Quishuarani — 
a place (or rather the name of no place except a few huts a 
tered here and there among fig trees) some leagues below the 
village called Uchumayo, on the Arequipa or Chiri river. All at 
once I started in the midst of my sleep, roused by a terrific SiN" 
ing. After a considerable yelling which ended ina melanchoy 
sigh, there followed a long yaravi, of course in the minor keys 
and then came another long, loud exclamation and then at 
distressing yaravi again, and so on during the entire night of 
news had just arrived by horse from Arequipa that the brother 
the wife of Lecaros (in whose hut we were staying) was 
