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Appendix F
lower finger of the upper hand. The curls in the second
example are easily done, as it is made while sounding the
second note of each of- the three tied quavers by a sudden pat
of the same lower finger of the upper hand, and answers for two
notes. In the third example the curls are done in the same
manner by pat of the finger while sounding the second note of
each of the tied quavers.
Example IV.
OF OTHER CURLS.
Example V. Example VI.
In the fourth example the curl is made by a pat of the same
finger while sounding the second note of the tied quavers.
Example the fifth, by a pat of the same finger while sounding
D, slurring the next note and finishing the last by another pat
of the same finger. Example the sixth, the curl is made by two
quick pats of the upper finger of the lower hand while sounding
the first note F, and finishing the next note, D, by a pat of the
same finger. The third note, E, in the same example begins by
two pats of the upper finger of the lower hand and finishes the
next note, D, with one pat of the lower finger of the upper
hand.
OF TUNING THE DRONES OR BASS.
Most good performers at this time have only two drones
going at once, which are the two large ones. The large drone
must be stopped, then sounding lower A to the smaller drone, it
may be screwed inward or outward till the sound is equal to A,
then sounding the large drone, it may be screwed in the same
manner till the sound of it is an exact octave to the rest.