Sigurd. Why do you lift your fingers?
Ruster. To make the notes.
Sigurd. Let me try! (Ruster places his little fingers over two of the stops. Sigurd blows, but no sound comes. Oswald laughs.)
Oswald. Let me try! (Ruster shows him also—but still no tone.) How do you do it? (He tries again.)
Ruster. I blow in here. (Showing them.) And I keep the holes covered with my fingers. When I want to make a note, I lift up a finger, like this. (He blows.)
Sigurd. Blow another.
Ruster. (Blows another. Then both over again) This is A and this is B.
Oswald. A and B. You can’t play them. They’re letters.
Ruster. Yes, and in music they are the names of the notes. (Takes out a score and with a crayon makes a few notes.) This is the way they look.
Sigurd. Let me see.