... peculiar pathos of the well-known airs was never, in our hearing, given with more exquisite expression. The fullness of his natural notes is not more remarkable than the extent and softness of his falsetto, his ascent to and fall from which has nothing of the ...

... musical scale. The plan propo-ed gives to the last stn of each hour a different musical sound, according with one of the natural notes of the gamut. Thus, at one in the morning the clock would give the sound of la, the lowest tone of the bass clef; at two ...