 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 618 pages
...the tone more readily. Different parts may be played together by using both hands ; and the tones un1 best drawn out when the glasses turn from the ends of the fingers, not when they turn to them. The advantages of this instrument, says doctor Franklin, an', that its tones... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1835 - 816 pages
...water, and quite free from greasiness ; a little fine chalk is sometimes useful to make them catch the glass, and bring out the tone more readily. Both...by which means different parts are played together. " The advantages of this instrument are," says Dr. Franklin, " that its tones are incomparably sweet... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 524 pages
...bring out the tone more readily. Different parts may IK; played together by using both hands ; and the tones are best drawn out when the glasses turn from the ends of the fingers, not when they turn to them. The ad vantages of this instrument, says doctor Franklin, are, that its tones... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1836 - 814 pages
...water, and quite free from greasiness ; a little fine chalk is sometimes useful to make them catch the glass, and bring out the tone more readily. Both...by which means different parts are played together. " The advantages of this instrument are," says Dr. Franklin, " that its tones are incomparably sweet... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...quite free from all greasiness ; a little fine chalk upon them is sometimes useful, to make them catch the glass and bring out the tone more readily. Both...the glasses turn from the ends of the fingers, not when they turn to them. The advantages of this instrument are, that its tones are incomparably sweet... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...quite free from all greasiness ; a little fine chalk upon them is sometimes useful, to make them catch the glass and bring out the tone more readily. Both...the glasses turn from the ends of the fingers, not when they turn to them. The advantages of this instrument are, that its tones are incomparably sweet... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...bring out the tone more readily. l)iflerent parts may be played together liy using both hands ; and the tones are best drawn out when the glasses turn from the ends of the fingers, not when they turn to them. The advantages of this instrument, says doctor Franklin, are, that its tones... | |
 | John Weeks Moore - Music - 1854 - 1020 pages
...the tone more readily. Different parts may be played together by using both hands ; and the tones arc best d"rawn out when the glasses turn from the ends of the fingers, not when they turn to them. The advantages of this instrument, says Dr. Franklin, are, that its tones are... | |
 | Charles Ferdinand Pohl - Glass harmonica - 1862 - 24 pages
...quite free from all greasiness ; a little fine chalk upon them is sometimes useful, to make them catch the glass and bring out the tone more readily. Both...drawn out when the glasses turn from the ends of the finger, not when they turn to them. " The advantages of this instrument are, that its tones are incomparably... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Inventions - 1885 - 320 pages
...are used, by which means different parts are played together. Observe that the tones are best brought out when the glasses turn from the ends of the fingers, not when they turn to them. The advantages of this instrument are, that its tones are incomparably sweet,... | |
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... them is sometimes useful, to make them catch the glass and bring out the tone more readily. Both hands are used, by which means different .parts are played together. — Observe, that the tones are best drawn out when the glasses turn from the ends... 
