. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. ent was completed in1810, and called Erards Double-Action Harp, cmaccount of its two mechanisms working is tuned in the key of C flat. By fixing thepedals in the first groove the instrument is at oncetransposed into Cnatural; and by fix-ing them in the sec-ond groove, it istransposed anothersemitone higher, in-to the key of Csharp; the compassof the harp beingthus from the doubleE below the bass toEinaltissimo. Sincethis time there hasbeen no more im-provement in theharp than there hasbeen in the v
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. ent was completed in1810, and called Erards Double-Action Harp, cmaccount of its two mechanisms working is tuned in the key of C flat. By fixing thepedals in the first groove the instrument is at oncetransposed into Cnatural; and by fix-ing them in the sec-ond groove, it istransposed anothersemitone higher, in-to the key of Csharp; the compassof the harp beingthus from the doubleE below the bass toEinaltissimo. Sincethis time there hasbeen no more im-provement in theharp than there hasbeen in the violinsince of Paris Browneof New York ( Buckwell suc-cessor), are the twobest liarp-makers inthe world; and ac-Fig. American to Bochsa. Aptommas, and other great masters of the harpin Europe, no European harp can give more com-plete satisfaction than Brownes splendid grandGothic six octave and a half double-action, withthe vibrating basses (Fig. ail). The harp haslong been neglected for its noisy rival, the IIARPF-R 522 IIARKOW but it is rcninik!il)k tlint for the last ton yearsthere is so markeii revival of this beautiful in-strument, that it is now seen in every music-store, and heard in all the fashionable an orchestral instrument it can no longer bedispensed witli, for, heginninj; with Spontini in hisfamous opera, The IVs^ii/, and Hossiiii in WillinmTell, it fills in the music of all groat moilerM com-posers a place which nothing else can supi> does for a hundred other pieces what twilightdoes for scenery. While it blends hannoniouslywith all other instruments an<l voices, as thearoma of a flower-garden pervades the all-sur-rnunding air, it never loses its own individu-ality. With the least noise, it sends forth themost melody. The highest and purest sphere ofthe harp, however, is in the drawing-room, wherethe beauty and association of its classic form, theliving sympathy with
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