‘MODERN INSTRUMENTATION AND ORCHESTRATION. we two srchorm, the latog and bua then "hese nly he mle or Se. he fas, which as alot always foor ler, ban tube somewhat wider, which allow lecending lower aod more eal. zoe, aoreover, the low doube-buss acx-horn Juand the drone saxchorn in Bp, which ae at {ave below the two preceding ; but of which {he medivm notes should be employed in a rate movement, ‘Sazotrombas. ‘ove are bras fantraraente with mouth-plooe, and ‘hres, fou, or five cylinder, Hike the preceding, “ate, bring more contacto, gives tothe wad it producen a character taore abrill,—par- 4 at once of the quality of tone of the trampet T tat of the bugle. number of tie memben of the family of rombas equals thet of sex-horos. They” ero sed fn the seme orde, from high to low) ead f the same compare. Siax-Tubas. ‘19 are_instramente with mouth-picee and stim eens ya of rors une, carry lacing extra tet i arltary bods intended tobe heed ED, and of tho drone in BD. cee shope—clogarly roneded—rocalla that of ‘to trumpets on a grand sel, ‘The Concertina, femall astroment, with plates of bra ‘alo vibration by «curreat of ar. The scar. vehieh for suas yeors wave guncl toy, formed rountwork ofthe concertina; and sibacquenl Bf the melodiom. ‘The souad af the concert nee penetrating and oft; notwithetanding its nea, carries erably fr: i allie tell el the qualty of sone of the harp, and with hat pianofore, Bill more as, ie unites with Tor te meodiam, whichis ow the bead of y. Bu thero would be Title advantage in ig ench a aaocintion since the melodiom bas 28 ‘s quulity of tone mnalogosa to that of the concertina, produces the mame effects, ond moreover possessss many others which the concertina does not pouoes ‘The concertina is a kind of wall elastic box ‘which ig helt horicontally between both hands, Tt in played by means of knobs, prossod with the points of the fingers, and which, raniag » valve, came to pase over the plats or reeda of brace, the column of ‘He supplied by « bellow placed betweon the eto fides of the box. ‘These sides are formed. by two tablets: which hold, on the outside, the koy-board of Kooba and, on the inside, the vibrating plates ‘The bellows, brving no valve, can oly fll and empty itaolf by means of the set of reed-valves, which in-epire and ex-pire, each in turn, the air necessary fc the iti of rede - "The coveati ite small family complote independently ofits relationship with the melodium, ‘There inthe bese concertina, the alto, and the opraio. ‘The bane concertina bus the sompscs of the violon- ‘ello; the alto, that of the viola ; and the soprano, ‘at ofthe violin. ‘The soprano concertina is almost tha only one ured. fe will presently give the oompass of the con- certina; which the popularity that i bss soquired in ‘alled tho Bugluh Te will be perovived,—in these two chromatic seals [one of hich roprovnts the moan of the left tablet, and the other cho of the right table)—ehat the maker ofthe English concertina hae ealabiched, ja tho thos fiat ootsves, enharmonic otereals bo. tern the A and the Gz, and botweee the ED aad the Df giving « tle mare elavation to the AD than to thd Gh. and to the Ep than to the DE; thos conforming to the doctrine of the eeoustici rey contery th pratceof mcs ie in very evident that the concertina being an instrament with xed sounds, ike the planofort, the congan, aad the melodie, sbonld, He those insta: tents, be toned necording to the lew of taperatoent, Tn is present sine, i enharmonic. notes 8 fact erat fom ting’ played wth «aot ith Krorgan, or with a melediem, withoot product ‘Tusotde whan the muneal phaser the barony Sntrodgee uolions between, the exbarmosio Al the Gs, the Ebs or tho Ds of the concer theeo same notes temspersmngnied on the other nara tmont; singe the AD and the Gg, m well a the ED fd the D§, are identiod on te introments toned {> tempordment, while they aro not so on the on. England “bas cangod to certina. artiony aod that asthe the ogo nor he other of {heecharmonie wea (A wal GB of the conertoa) trl by Za siet won with the AD or the OB of the wemperamentd instromest, which prevrven twiddle between the two sounds of the concertina. Moreover, the affect of this ion of a portion ‘of the sca will be ati] more frightful, if the oon ‘play a duet with an instrament having ‘moveable sounds, such as the violin; -mosical prac= tieo, musical seme, the ear, in short, of all wiGh whom modera mosic is cultivated, eatablakfag, hat, fm certain cane, thom notee called tending