. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . re empty barrels or casks beaten on thehead with the shank-bones of cattle. A queer thing that went with these whenthe affair was pretentious — full dress, as itwere — at least it was so in the West Indies,whence Congo Plains drew all inspirations —was the Marimba brett, a union of reed andstring principles. A single strand of wire ranlengthwise of a bit of wooden board, some-times a shallow box of thin wood, some eightinches long by four or five in width, acrosswhich, under the wire, were several joints ofreed about a quarter of an inch in
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . re empty barrels or casks beaten on thehead with the shank-bones of cattle. A queer thing that went with these whenthe affair was pretentious — full dress, as itwere — at least it was so in the West Indies,whence Congo Plains drew all inspirations —was the Marimba brett, a union of reed andstring principles. A single strand of wire ranlengthwise of a bit of wooden board, some-times a shallow box of thin wood, some eightinches long by four or five in width, acrosswhich, under the wire, were several joints ofreed about a quarter of an inch in diameterand of graduated lengths. The performer,sitting cross-legged, held the board in bothhands and plucked the ends of the reedswith his thumb-nails. The result was called— music. But the grand instrument at last, the firstviolin, as one might say, was the banjo. Ithad but four strings, not six: beware of thedictionary. It is not the favorite musical in-strument of the negroes of the Southern Statesof America. Uncle Remus says truly that. BLOWING THE QUILLS. THE DAXCE IN PLACE CONGO.
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