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Angus quoted Scripture on behalf of the organ plea, recalling David's use of instrumental music and quoting the Ninety-second Psalm "Upon a ten-stringed instrument And on the psaltery, Upon the harp with solemn sound And grave, sweet melody."
"Well; perhaps in my heart, yes." "I know you do, loud psalms of praise upon a ten-stringed lute. But Stumfold is always singing aloud, and his lute has twenty strings." Here the voice of the twenty-stringed singer was heard across the large room asking the company a riddle. "Why was Peter in prison like a little boy with his shoes off?" "That's so like him," said Mr Maguire.
At one end of the long series of figures representing guests and attendants was a band of performers, at least three in number, two of whom certainly played upon the lyre. The lyres were ten-stringed, of a square shape, and hung round the player's neck by a string or ribbon. The Assyrians also resembled the Greeks and Romans in introducing flowers into their feasts.
A throat like a ten-stringed instrument, surmounting square shoulders that end in knobs that obtrude above unfilled hollows, is an unpleasing vision that looms up conspicuously too often in opera-box and drawing-room. The unattractive exhibition 61, is a familiar sight in the social world.
One of the daughters invented the small ten-stringed harp, and the other the spinning wheel. "Thus," we are told, "were introduced the arts of medicine, manufactures, music, and woollen work!"
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