[105]Amiot, de la Mus. de Chin., p. 35.
[106]Figures 2 and 3, pl. 1, Amiot, des Chin.
[107]Figures 4 and 6, pl. 2, Amiot.
[108]Figure 7, pl. 2, Amiot.
[109]Amiot, Essai sur les pierres sonores.
[110]L’Abbé Roussier, Annotations sur Amiot.
[111]The chronicle says “it was mute forever,” but this was meant as hyperbole.
[112]De la Mus. des Chin., p. 60.
[113]There are two kinds of siao, the great and the small. The latter has the same number of tubes, but pitched an octave higher.
[114]Fetis, Hist. Gen de la Mus. VI. 1, p. 66-67.