Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson, M.D. and Charles Hercules Read, F.S.A.

Date:
1892
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    be played ? if so, write down in notation or in letters the tones emitted by the slabs. 17. Have they drums with cords, or some other contrivance, by means of which the paichment can be tightened or slackened at pleasure ? 18. Have they drums with definite tones (like our kettle-drums) 1 and if so, what are the tones in which they are tuned when two or more are played together ? 19. (a) Any open hand-drums with one parcliment only, like our taraboui'ine, or (6) are any drums provided with a membrane at both ends 1 20. Are the drums beaten with sticks or with the hands 1 21. What wind-instruments (trumpets, flutes. &c.) have they 1 22. Any trumpets with sliding-tubes (like the trombone) ? 23. How are the flutes sounded ] is there a plug in the mouth-hole 1 24. Any nose-flutes 1 25. What is the number and the position of the finger-holes on the flutes ? 26. Wliat tones do the flutes yield if the fiuger-holes are closed in regular succession upwards or downwards ? 27. If the people have the syrinx (or Pandean pipe), ascertain the series of musical intervals yielded by the tubes, and whether the intei'vals are the same in several examples. 28. Do the people construct wind-instruments with a vibrating reed, or some similar con- trivance, inserted in the mouth-liole 1 29. If they have a reed wind-instrument, observe whether the reed is single (like that of the clarionet) or double (like that of the oboe). 30. Have they a kind of bagpipe 1 31. What musical jnstruments have they which are not used by them in musical performances, but merely for conveying signals, and for such like purposes? 32. Haye they stringed instruments the strings of which are sounded (a)by being twanged with the fingers, (h) twanged with a plectrum, (c) beaten with sticks or hammers (like the dulcimer), or {d) played Avith a bow ? 33. If there are stringed instruments with frets on the neck (as is the case with our guitar), note down the intervals pro- duced by the frets in regular succession. 34. What are the strings made of (gut, wire, &c.) ? 35. Is there any particular contrivance on some of the instruments in the arrangement and situation of the strings ? 36. Ai-e there stringed instru- ments wath sympathetic strings {i.e., strings placed under