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    How the Piano Came to Be
    How the Piano Came to Be
    How the Piano Came to Be
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    How the Piano Came to Be

    By Ellye Howell Glover

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      How the Piano Came to Be - Ellye Howell Glover

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      Title: How the Piano Came to Be

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      HOW THE PIANO CAME TO BE

      UPRIGHT HARPSICHORD

      (From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)

      HOW THE PIANO

      CAME TO BE

      BY

      ELLYE HOWELL GLOVER

      ILLUSTRATED

      CHICAGO

      BROWNE & HOWELL COMPANY

      1913

      COPYRIGHT, 1913

      BY BROWNE & HOWELL COMPANY

      PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1913

      THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS

      NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      HOW THE PIANO CAME TO BE

      How the Piano

      Came To Be

      From the dried sinews stretched across the shell of a dead tortoise to the concert-grand piano of the present day is a far flight. Yet to this primitive source, it is said, may be traced the evolution of the stringed instrument which reached its culmination in the piano. The latter has been aptly called the household orchestra, and in tracing its origin one must go far back into the annals of the past. If we accept the Bible as history, and it is the greatest of all histories, the stringed instrument is of very ancient date. It is recorded that the ambassadors who came to the court of Saul played upon their nebels, and that David, the sweet singer of Israel, wooed the king from his sadness by singing to his harp. We must go back to the civilization of ancient Egypt, more than five hundred years before that morning nearly two thousand years ago when, it is written, the angelic choir chanted above the historic manger the glorious message, Peace on earth, good will to men, and the morning stars sang together.

      In the olden times the Greeks laid claim to everything which bespoke culture and progress. The pages of ancient history record no other one thing so persistently as the glory that was Greece. And so they tell of the time when—

      "Music, heavenly maid, was young,

      And yet in ancient

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