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" There are pedals communicating with the great bells, upon which the carilloneur with his feet plays the báselo sprightly airs performed with the two hands upon the upper species of keys. These keys are projecting sticks, wide enough asunder to be sfruck... "
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences ... - Page 27
1816
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 4, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 454 pages
...by either of the hands edgeways, without the danger of hitting the neighbouring key. The player il provided with a thick leather covering for the little...hand, to guard againft the violence of the ftroke. Thefe carillons are heard through a large town. CARINA, a Latin term, properly fignifying the Icel...
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A tour through Holland ... to the south of Germany, in ... 1806

sir John Carr - 1807 - 538 pages
...either of the two hands edgeways, without the danger of hitting the adjoining keys. The player uses a thick leather covering for the little finger of each hand, to prevent the excessive pain Avhich the violence of the stroke, necessary to produce sufficient sound,...
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A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the ...

Sir John Carr - 1807 - 328 pages
...either of the two hands edgeways, without the danger of hitting the adjoining keys. The player uses a thick leather covering for the little finger of each hand, to prevent the excessive pain which the violence of the stroke, necessary to produce sufficient sound,...
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A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the ...

Sir John Carr - 1807 - 334 pages
...either of the two hands edgeways, without the danger of hitting the adjoining fceys. The player uses a thick leather covering for the little finger of each hand, to prevent the excessive pain which the violence of the stroke, necessary to produce sufficient sound,...
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A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of ..., Volume 27

William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 pages
...either of the two hands edgeways, without the danger of hitting the adjoining keys. The player uses a thick leather covering for the little finger of each hand, to prevent the excessive pain which the violence of the stroke, necessary to produce sufficient sound,...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences ..., Volume 5

Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 820 pages
...enough aiunder to be llruck with violence and velocity by either of the hands edgewifc, without the danger of hitting the neighbouring key. The player...covering for the little finger of each hand, to guard againll the violence of the Itiuke. Thefe carillons are heard through a brge town. CARINA, a Latin...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge ..., Volume 5

Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 862 pages
...upon the upper fpecies of keys. Thefe keys are projcfting (ticks, wide enough afunder to be ftruck with violence and velocity by either of the hands...danger of hitting the neighbouring key. The player ie provided with a thick leather covering for the little finger of each hand, to guard againft the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 5

1823 - 848 pages
...enough asunder to be struck with violence and velocity by either of the hands edgewise, without the danger of hitting the neighbouring key. The player...covering for the little finger of each hand, to guard against the violence of the stroke. These carillons are heard through a large towu. CARINA, a Latin...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 5

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 pages
...upon the upper species of keys. These keys are projecting sticks, wide enough asunder to be struck ~ J w i q eT x W j '*:p' : o K 폿R s/- ` òH > ringer of each hand, to guard anainst the violence of the stroke. They are heard through a large town....
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The Family Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge and General Literature ...

John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 pages
...violence and velocity by either of the hands edgeways, without the danger of hitting the neighboring key. The player is provided with a thick leather covering for the little linger of each hand, to guard against the violence of the stroke. These carillons are heard through...
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