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The Crescent

With its numerous little bells it serves to lend added brilliance to display pieces and pompous marches of

Some more or less imperfect or unknown instruments such as the aeolidicon, the anemochord, the accordion, the Poikil organ, the ancient sistrum etc: will not be treated here. Readers desirous of knowing more about them are referred to scientific literature on the subject.

military bands. It can be shaken only at rather lengthy intervals, i.e. about twice in a bar of moderate speed.

Our object in this work is to acquaint the reader with only the instruments customarily used in modern music and to show him how to combine them harmoniously or to contrast them effectively, taking into account their expressive possibilities and individualities.