Name the principles of classification for wind instruments.
Give examples of each class.
What is a reed? How many kinds are in use?
What methods of producing sound are used in playing stringed instruments?
Give examples of each class.
Give a description of the lute.
Name the steps in the evolution of the violin.
The catalogues of the instruments contained in the Metropolitan Museum (Crosby-Brown Collection), New York City, will be found very useful for reference. This collection is one of the most complete in the world, and is arranged so as to show the development of instruments of the various types. They can be secured at slight expense by addressing the Museum.
LESSON XVI.
The Organ, Organ Playing and Organ Music.
In the book of Genesis it is written: “Jubal, he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.” It is not to be understood that the word organ in this passage meant an instrument anything like that heard in our churches at the present day. In fact, as St. Augustine tells us, there was a time when all musical instruments were called organs.