. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 4Hn KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. to 046. In other niusoiinis siinihir instruinonts are to be found. A few from Chiriciui were ])riefly described fort}'^ years ago as belonging to the American Ethnological SocietJ^^ In the American Museum of Natural History in New York, as reported by Prof. F. W. Putnam, half a dozen such three- and four- hole whistles from the region of Santa Marta, Colombia, are to be seen; while under his charge at Ca


. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 4Hn KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. to 046. In other niusoiinis siinihir instruinonts are to be found. A few from Chiriciui were ])riefly described fort}'^ years ago as belonging to the American Ethnological SocietJ^^ In the American Museum of Natural History in New York, as reported by Prof. F. W. Putnam, half a dozen such three- and four- hole whistles from the region of Santa Marta, Colombia, are to be seen; while under his charge at Cambridge, Mass., there are a number from the Uloa Valley, Central America;"^ of those figured, three have three finger-holes and are said to give five notes each. In the Brussels Conservatory Collection ^ there are twentj^-five terra cotta instruments from Mexico; two of them are clearlj^ of this resonator type, giving five notes and having a compass, respectivel3% of eight and eleven E. 8. (fig. 3). Lastly, a similar instrument described and figured b}- Dr. Walter Hough, in the Report on the Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid. 1S1»2-1893, has the small com- pass of six E. 8. The point should again be empha- sized that with these instruments the notes get closer and closer together as the pitch rises; for instance, on the type instrument the successive intervals are in whole numbers 4, 3,2, 2, E. S.; on the Brussels instru- ments, 3, 2, 2,1, and 4, 3, 2, 2; on the Madrid speci- men, 2, 2, 1, 1. A i'hurt (Plate 10) will show more accurately what the four intervals are with any speci- fied ratio of holes, and whether there is appreciable error in expressing the interval in whole numbers. Of course the calculations assume uniformity in the blowing, for it is easy for the performer to vary the notes by a con- siderable amount. 8till, it is a surprise to find how well these simple scales satisfy the ear. A sort of stone flageolet from Costa Rica appears to be connected w


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