California Musical Journal, Vol. 3: October, 1896 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from California Musical Journal, Vol. 3: October, 1896

Apart from the technical and artistic interest which belongs to' the orchestra, there is much that is-curious about its make-up. It is noteworthy, for example, that this harmonious whole repre sents the mechanical means of musical expression of every country under heaven, and of every age since Pan first blew into a reed or the winds of the Egean sea sang a lullaby over the dry sinews of a tortoise. For it is a fact, that while there have been: numerous modifications of old forms, no ah solutely new instrument has been invented since music became a modern art. 1 More than that, it is next to impossible tosay where the original of any one instrument now in use was invented or Where it was first fised. For all that is'known to the con trary, men may have drummed before they spoke, and may have Spun their hair into fiddle-strings before they knew how to make a fire. Such an association of instruments as is found' 1n the grand orchestra of today is not more than a half century old, while an orchestra of any kind dates back only about 300 years.

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