. Musical instruments . a Sorrowful Soulc, London, 1613, this littleorgan is mentioned in combination with other curious instru-ments now antiquated, most of which will be found in thepresent collection :— Praise him upon the claricoales, Tile lute and simfonie :With tlic dulsemers and the regalls, Swcete sittrons melody. The bagpipe (Fig. jy) appears to have been from timeimmemorial a special favourite instrument with the Celticraces ; but it was perhaps quite as much admired by theSlavonic nations. In Poland, and in the Ukraine, it used to bemade of the whole skin of the goat in which the sh
. Musical instruments . a Sorrowful Soulc, London, 1613, this littleorgan is mentioned in combination with other curious instru-ments now antiquated, most of which will be found in thepresent collection :— Praise him upon the claricoales, Tile lute and simfonie :With tlic dulsemers and the regalls, Swcete sittrons melody. The bagpipe (Fig. jy) appears to have been from timeimmemorial a special favourite instrument with the Celticraces ; but it was perhaps quite as much admired by theSlavonic nations. In Poland, and in the Ukraine, it used to bemade of the whole skin of the goat in which the shape of theanimal, whenever the bagpipe was expanded with air, appearedfully retained exhibiting even the head with the horns; hencethe bagpipe was called kosd, which signifies a goat. The bagpipe is of high antiquity in Ireland, and is alluded toin Irish poetry and prose said to date from the tenth gravely engaged in playing the bagpipe is represented inan illuminated Irish manuscript, of the year l-ii. 77.— HI >. iMi^li-li. iMh CI iiliiry. \,i .mil AUm II Miisiuin I,. ^11 ill. Nl. I Tc7 POST-MEDIJiVAL. 131 The hell has always been so much in popular favour inEngland that some account of it must not be omitted. PaulHentzner, a (ierman, who visited England in the year 1598,records in his journal : The people are vastly fond of greatnoises that fill the ear, such as firing of cannon, drums, and theringing of bells ; so that in London it is common for a numberof them that have got a glass in their heads to go up into somebelfry, and ring the bells for hours together for the sake ofexercise. This may be exaggeration,—not unusual withtravellers. It is, however, a fact that bell-ringing has been afavourite amusement with Englishmen for centuries. The way in which church bells are suspended and fastened,so as to permit of their being made to vil)rate in the mosteffective manner without dama^ing l)y their vibration thebuilding in which they are
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