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XVIII. Naval Warfare. Mechanical Appliances. Music.: 1130.
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XVIII. Naval Warfare. Mechanical Appliances. Music.: 1130.

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Tymbals to be played like the monochord, or the soft flute.

[6] Here there is to be a cylinder of cane after the manner of clappers with a musical round called a Canon, which is sung in four parts; each singer singing the whole round. Therefore I here make a wheel with 4 teeth so that each tooth takes by itself the part of a singer.

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    : In the original there are some more sketches, to which the text, from line 6, refers. They are studies for a contrivance exactly like the cylinder in our musical boxes.

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