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. Musical instruments . outhiere,and decorated with oak foliage and acorns ; at the top ofthe pillar is a figure of a Cupid. Students who examine the old instruments above describedwill probably wish to know something about their qualityof tone. How do they sound ? Might they still be madeeffective in our present state of the art ? are questions whichnaturally occur to the musical inquirer having such instru-ments brought before him. A few words bearing on thesequestions may therefore not be out of place here. It is generally and justly admitted that in no other branchof the art of music has greater progress been made during thelast century than in the construction of musical , there are people who t^iink that we have also ^^H HV ^^^^^^^^^^/^^ ?~^^^^^^^^k ?i ^^Ml ml HI ^^^BW III ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^K -^h^I ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Kl y^^^^^-^m ^^^^^^K ^»^^m ^^^H 51 —llAir. 177.,. II. fi; W. ; . 111.\i( . All. II .\I 11 ?mil. ?l-7- 5;. 1m I Ilii I-Liij^lisli. i;.irlv 171I1 c. lUiHV. -•;, W. 111. \ii ;i ,.1 ,111 1 \\\i 11 POST-MEDLEVAL. 113 lost something here which might with advantage be various instruments by being more and more perfectedare becoming too much aUke in quahty of sound, or in thatcharacter of tone which the Frencli call timbre, and theGermans Klangfarhe, and which professor Tjmdall in hislectures on sound has translated clang-iini. Everymusical composer knows how much more suitable one clang-tint is for the expression of a certain emotion than old instruments, imperfect though they were in manyrespects, possessed this variety of clang-tint to a high were thev on this account less capable of expressionthan the modern ones. That no improvement has been madeduring the last two centuries in instruments of the viohnclass is a well-known fact. As to lutes and cithers the c
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