... major, those stones representing the sharp F's, C's, and G's, arc transferred to the lower tier, while the corresponding natural notes are placed in the vacant spaces above. On this roughlooking instrument, the inventor's three sons perform a variety of ...

... perhaps, the only person living who can play them, and make them at the same time nearly as beautiful in quality as the natural notes. And it is worthy observation, that on the Continent (so great is the change made in the employment of the brass instruments) ...

... flock of crows about and upon a dead horse. A rest and arrest explain themselves ; Baritones are Barrow tones, Natural notes the hungry chirrup of a young sparrow ; and Fingering and execution, are young thieves picking pockets, and expiating ...

... 011ivier, London. THERE is a bird that resides in the vast woods of America yclept a mocking-bird; and, albeit its own natural note is neither wonderful in execution nor rare in kind, still it has the gift of making the leafy solitude vocal with song ...

... low and confined contralto. She had entirely lost all its upper tones, and possessed little more than one octave of good natural notes ; if she attempted to go higher, she produced only a shriek, quite unnatural, and almost painful to the ear. Her first ...