| General history - 1814 - 798 sider
...though slowly, thus producing different notes, according to the different lengths of the instruments, but all of them of the hollow or base sort ; to counteract...split, and laid along the ground, and, by that means, famishing a tone as acute as those produced by the others were grave. The real of the band, as well... | |
| William Mariner - 1818 - 360 sider
...ground, " though slowly, thus producing different notes " according to the different lengths of the in" struments, but all of them of the hollow or " base...the band, as well as " those who performed upon the bamboos, sung " a slow and soft air, which so much tempered " the harsher notes of the above instruments,... | |
| William Mariner - 1820 - 482 sider
...notes according to the different lengths of the instruments, but all of them of the hollow or bass sort ; to counteract which a person kept striking...acute as those produced by the others were grave. The test of the band, as well as those who performed upon the bamboos, sung a slow and soft air, which... | |
| James Cook - 1821 - 488 sider
...though slowly, thus producing different notes, according to the different lengths of the instruments, but all of them of the hollow or base sort; to counteract...the band, as well as those who performed upon the bamboos, sung a slow and soft air, which so tempted the harsher notes of the above instruments, thatnobye-stander,... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 532 sider
...though slowly, thus producing different notes, according to the different lengths of the instruments, but all of them of the hollow or base sort ; to counteract...the band, as well as those who performed upon the bamboos, sung a slow and soft air, which so tempered the harsher notes of the above instruments, that... | |
| James Cook - 1842 - 644 sider
...though slowly, thus producing different notes, according to the different lengths of the instruments, but all of them of the hollow or base sort ; to counteract...the band, as well as those who performed upon the bamboos, sung a slow and soft air, which so tempered the harsher notes of the above instruments, that... | |
| David Laing Purves - 1874 - 856 sider
...instruments, but all of them of the hollow or bass sort ; to counteract which, a person kept striking quickly with two sticks a piece of the same substance, split,...the band, as well as those who performed upon the bamboos, sung ft slow and soft air, which so tempered the harsher notes of the above instruments, that... | |
| James Cook - 1880 - 538 sider
...notes, according to the different lengths of the instruments, but all of them of the hollow or bass sort ; to counteract which, a person kept striking...the band, as well as those who performed upon the bamboo, sang a slow and soft air, which so tempered upon the harsher notes of the above instrument,... | |
| Daniel Gregory Mason - 1915 - 646 sider
...notes according to the different lengths of the instruments, but all of them of the hollow or bass sort; to counteract which a person kept striking quickly,...the band, as well as those who performed upon the bamboos, sang a slow and soft air, which so much tempered the harsher notes of the above instruments... | |
| James Cook - 1999 - 494 sider
...notes, according to the different lengths of the instruments, but all of them of the hollow or bass sort; to counteract which, a person kept striking...the band, as well as those who performed upon the bamboos, sung a slow and soft air, which so tempered the harsher notes of the above instruments, that... | |
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