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" Some of these individuals, thus destined to drag through a melancholy existence, play at different times on several pipes of various sizes which breathe the higher notes ; but the base pipes have each their unchanging blower; they are 'extremely long,... "
Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807 ... - Page 152
by Sir Robert Ker Porter - 1809 - 475 pages
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 17

1826 - 370 pages
...have each their unchanging blower; they are extremely long, and are laid upon a machine or trussels, close to which the performer stands, and places his...bell of the tube, to give it a sharper or flatter note, as may be required. The performers are in general, thin and pale, and (says Sir R. Ker Porter,...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 17

Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 pages
...have each their unchanging blower ; they are extremely long, and iiiv laid upon a machine or trussels, close to which the performer stands, and places his...near the bell of the tube, to give it a sharper or Hatter note, as may be required. The performers are, in general, thin and pale, and (says Sir R. Ker...
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The Quarterly Review (london)

Anonymous - 1809 - 506 pages
...have each their unchanging blower; they are extremely long, and are laid upon a machine or trqssel, close to which the performer- stands, and places his...the smaller extremity of the pipe, in a horizontal pqsition. The shape is exactly that of a hearing trumpet ; a screw is inserted near the bell of the...
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Music: As it Was, and as it is

Nathanael Ellsworth Cornwall - 1851 - 156 pages
...long, and are laid upon a machine or trussel. The shape is exactly that of a hearing trumpet ; and a screw is inserted near the bell of the tube, to give it a sharper or flatter note, as may be required." In view of these and other similar accounts of the musical skill of the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 2

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1809 - 498 pages
...had just been purchased by a nobleman, on the recent .death of its former possessor. ' Some of these individuals, thus destined to drag through a melancholy...bell of the tube, to give it a sharper or flatter note, as may be required. The performers are in general thin and pale, and I have little doubt, but...
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