Cultivated) farther receive as great and notable Improve- 
ments, both ex parte Objedi, and ex parte Organi vel Me- 
dij, 
I. As to the ObjeH of hearing, which is Sound, improve- 
ment has been and may be made, both as to the Begetting^ 
and as to the Conveying or Fropagatiag (which is a kind ot 
Conferving ) of Sounds. 
I. Asto theS^j^^^^/w^ of Sounds. The Art of Imita- 
ting any Sound, whether by Speaking ( that is pronoun- 
cing) any kind of Language, ( which really is an Artj 
and the yf-r^ offpeahing perhaps one of the greateft ) oi* by 
whifiling or by Singing ( which are allow'd Arts J or by 
Hollowingot Luring^ ("which the Huntfman and Faulkner 
would have to be an Art alfo^ or by Imitating with the 
Mouth ( or otherwife ) the voice of any Animal j as of 
§luaiU^ Cats^xxdi the like, or by l{eprefenting any Sound 
begotten by the ColUfion of Solid Bodies or after any o- 
ther manner / thefe are all Impravements ol Z)^r^S//^^r- 
and may be improv'd. 
Moreover the skill to make all forts of Mufical Injlru* 
both Ancient and Modern, whether ^^^«^lnftru- 
m^^iitsor iS'i^rm^ or of any other fort, whereof there 
are very many ( as Drums ^ Bells ^ the Syfirum of the Egyp- 
tians, and the like ) that beget ( andjiot only propagate) 
Sounds; the skill of making thefe, 1 fay, is an Art, 
that has as much improved Z>/Vfff /7 ^r^*«^, as an Harmo- 
nious Sound exceeds a fingle and rude one, that is, an im- 
muficalX^;^^: which Art is yet capable of farther Improve- 
ment. And I do hope, that by the rules, which may 
happily be laid down, concerning the Nature^ Prapa- 
gation and Proportion or adapting o( Sounds, away may 
be found out, both to improve Mufical Infiruments al- 
ready in ufe, and toinvent new ones, that fliall be more 
fwect and lufhious, then any yet known. Befides that 
by the fame means Injiruments may be made, that fhall 
imitate any found in Nature, that is not ArEicuIate , be 
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