 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...little fine chalk upon them is sometimes useful, to make them catch the glass and bring out the tones more readily. Both hands are used, by which means different parts are played together. Observe, the tones are best drawn out when the glass is turned from the ends of the fingers, not when they turn... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 498 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 - United States - 1906 - 502 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. weaker pressures of the finger, and continued to any length; and that the instrument,... | |
 | William Lines Hubbard - Music - 1908 - 376 pages
...quite free from all greasiness; a little fine chalk on 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... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Music - 1916 - 288 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1974 - 260 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... | |
 | Hilaire Dubourcq - Cooking - 2004 - 208 pages
...little fine chalk upon them is sometimes useful, to make them catch the glass and bring out the tones more readily. Both hands are used, by which means...the glasses turn from the ends of the fingers, not when they turn to them. The advantages of this instrument are, that the tones are incomparably sweet... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 514 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...by which means different parts are played together. The advantages of the instrument are that its tones are incomparably sweet beyond those of any other;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 513 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...by which means different parts are played together. The advantages of the instrument are that its tones are incomparably sweet beyond those of any other;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1906 - 498 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. weaker pressures of the finger, and continued to any length ; and that the... | |
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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... 
