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Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemule Gulliver, 1; First a Surgeon and Then a Captain of Several Ships

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemule Gulliver, 1; First a Surgeon and Then a Captain of Several Ships

Swift, Jonathan

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ISBN10: 1154185699
ISBN13: 9781154185690
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1804. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it. My practice was to ha vemy box removed from the place where the performers sat, as Far asl could; then to shut the doors and-windows of it, and draw the window-curtains; after which I found tieir music not disagreeable. I had learned ip my youih to play a little upon the spinnct.Gliui.uh Id itch kept one in her chamber, and a mas'.cr attended twice a week to teach her: I call it a spinnet, because it somewhat resembled that instrument, and wasplayed upon in the same manner. A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument. But this appeared extremely difficult: for the spinnet was nearly sixty feet long, each key being almost a foot wide, so that, with my arms extended, I could not reach to above five keys: and to press them down required a good smart stroke vitH my fist, which would be too great a labour, and to no purpose. The method I contrived was this: I prepared two round stacks, about the bigness of common cudgels; they-were thicker at one end than the other, and I covered the thicker end with a piece of mouse's skin, that, by rapping on them, 1 might neither damage the tops of the keys nor'interrupt the sound. Before the spinnet a bench was placed, about four feet below they keys. And I was put upon the bench.-I ran sideling upon it, that way and this, as fast.is I could, banging the proper keys with my two sticks, and made a shift to play a jigg, to the great satisfaction of both their majesties: but it was the most violent exercise I ever underwent, and yet I could not strike above sixteen keys, nor consequently play the bass and treble together, as oiher artists do; which was a great disadvantage to my performance. The king, who as I b...

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