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Updated: May 12, 2025
In 1828, Wheatstone improved the German wind instrument, called the MUND HARMONICA, till it became the popular concertina, patented on June 19, 1829 The portable harmonium is another of his inventions, which gained a prize medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
The machine began to work again, and Don Luis fingered his harmonium till nine o'clock, when Silver Stick locked the tower staircase, rattling his bunch of keys with a noise that equalled a curfew. Gabriel felt indignant at his brother's obstinacy. "You will kill the child; what you are doing is unworthy of a father." "I cannot help it, brother; it is impossible for me to look at her.
A bleeding nose was the lame explanation given for the stains which were on his clothes, on the table, on the keys of his harmonium. A quaint and characteristic folly was it that drove the murderer straight to the solace of his religion.
In the dining-room, he threw himself into an easy-chair in a gloom lit only by the fireglow, in the room above mourning a little harmonium which Margaret was playing, mixed with the sound of Loveday's voice. The old man said: "Richard, my boy..." Hogarth did not answer. "Richard, I have somewhat to say to you are ye hearkening?" Richard, losing blood, moaned a drowsy "Yes".
A black harmonium organ stood in one corner, set out with black and white hymn-books; a trestle-like table contained a large Bible; half a dozen black, horsehair-cushioned chairs stood, geometrically distant, against the walls, from which hung four engravings of "Paradise Lost" in black mourning frames; some dried ferns and autumn leaves stood in a vase on the mantelpiece, as if the chill of the room had prematurely blighted them.
The choir stood facing the right-hand end of the harmonium, and the leader stood just on Miss Blake's left hand, and to see the choir he had to look over her head.
"I'll come another day and hear your valiant harmonium. I suppose you think everybody should go to church?" "My father went, and I reckon I'll keep on going." "You always do as your father did?" "In most ways." "But not in all? I hear startling tales of new-shaped waggons and other adventures, to say nothing of your breaking up grass next spring."
Mead, a musical companion, ground out an unearthly accompaniment on "Duster's" little, broken-winded harmonium; and the company shrieked the chorus, regardless of time, tune, or anything but the earnest desire of each individual to make more noise than any one else. When this deafening uproar had at length subsided, everybody was forced to remain quiet for a few moments to regain their breath.
Scott to the seat which belonged to the masters of Longueval. Pauline had gone on before. She was waiting for Miss Percival in the shadow behind one of the pillars. By a steep and narrow staircase, she led Bettina to the gallery, and placed her before the harmonium.
Saunders came from Lydd and had a look at it, but he says it's past repair er satisfactory repair, and it ud really save money in the long run if we bought a new one." Joanna was a little shocked. She had listened to the grunts and wheezes of the harmonium from her childhood, and the idea of a new one disturbed her it suggested sacrilege and ritualism and the moving of landmarks.
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