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and rapidity unattainable on the common slide-
trombone. It is obvious that a discovery so impor-
tant will effect a considerable change and extension
of the employment of brass instruments in orches-
tras, as well as military bands. The improved
instruments have been tried, and their immediate
adoption decided on, by the Queen's Private Band,
and by nearly aU the bands of the Household Bri-
gade. The inventor of this beautiful piece of me-
chanism is a Mr. John Shaw, of Glossop, in Derby-
shire ; and we are induced to give it all the publicity
in our power, not only for its intrinsic importance,
but because of the modest and unpretending manner
iu which it was introduced to our notice. — Spectator.
An Air Violin. — A newly and ingeniously in-
vented instrument has lately been presented to tho
Academic des Sciences, of Paris, by M. Isoard. It re-
sembles the common violin, with the' strings extended
between two wooden or metal blades ; it is vibrated
upon at one end by a current of air, while at the other
the player presses on the strings, shortening them by
the pressure of the finger, the wind acting, in fact, in-
stead of the common bow. The sounds vary between
those of the French horn and the bassoon.
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