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Each instrument answers a wish for a certain sound. Flutes and drums have existed since prehistoric times. In the 19th century makers refined the mechanisms of winds, keyboards and strings. They wanted to play louder and more in tune. Each new timbre fed new styles.
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by Johann Georg Stauffer
It is played with a bow but held between the knees like a cello, and its six strings are tuned like those of a guitar. A Viennese violin maker turned it in 1823 into a variation on the guitar: it is also called the guitar-cello or love guitar.
Photo: Florian Monheim (CC BY-SA 4.0)
by Charles S. Barker
On large organs pressing the keys tired the fingers. A pneumatic device came to reduce that resistance. Badly adjusted it can delay the sound by more than 100 ms.
Photo: Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet (Public domain)
by Bob Burns
A long brass pipe with a telescoping tube like a trombone and a widely flared bell. It was played only in falsetto. Its invention is credited in the 1910s to the humorist Bob Burns. This radio entertainer made it known in the 1930s.
Photo: The evening world (Public domain)
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