. The roller canary : its breeding, rearing, and training . lover of Rollersshould understand the subject thoroughly. The cult ofthe Roller is not old in England, we have taken it fromthe Germans, therefore, the language used in describingthe song naturally follows that which has been associatedwith the bird for hundreds of years on the Continent. In the present-day songs we have the high, themedium, and the deep passages, called Tours. In thehigher tours the music is inferior to the medium, inthe deeper tours it is best, so far as purity of tone isconcerned. For this reason the widest range o
. The roller canary : its breeding, rearing, and training . lover of Rollersshould understand the subject thoroughly. The cult ofthe Roller is not old in England, we have taken it fromthe Germans, therefore, the language used in describingthe song naturally follows that which has been associatedwith the bird for hundreds of years on the Continent. In the present-day songs we have the high, themedium, and the deep passages, called Tours. In thehigher tours the music is inferior to the medium, inthe deeper tours it is best, so far as purity of tone isconcerned. For this reason the widest range of varia-tions is to be found in the deep tours and the narrowestin the high. Also, for the same reason, the middle ormedium and the deeper tours are much more valuablethan the high ones. We may therefore classify the melody into threedivisions, as follows: — Higher pitched Tours Fair Medium or middle Tours Good Deep Tours Very good E* 68 THE ROLLER CANARY For breeders who have a knowledge of music thecompass of the more valued tours is set forth THE ROLLER CANARY 69 Flute notes are sung in every pitch shown with theexception of the range given for Bass. Each single note represents the various degrees of themusical scale on which the tour named can be per-formed, but it will be well here to remark that birds arenot limited to our musical notation, which consists oftones and semitones. Their song has no fixed gradations,but shades into quarter and even eighth-tones, and this,of course, enriches the modulation. The outside limit for the high tours is given as Gsharp above the stave, but if the bird does not singtenderly and softly, the performance may be faulty, eventhough it may only reach F sharp. The complete compass of the song is practically threeoctaves; the soft rustling tour of former days, known asSchwirre, stretched the compass higher. ON MEASURING THE BEATS It is possible to a certain degree to measure the beatsin Bell, Hollow Bell, Schockel, Flutes and Gluck,
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