PIGEON-WHISTLE CONCERTS.
A traveler in Eastern lands tells the following little story of theChinese and their most unique pigeon whistles.
"One of the most curious expressions of emotional life in China is theapplication of whistles to a flock of pigeons. These whistles, verylight, weighing hardly a few grammes, are attached to the tails ofyoung pigeons soon after their birth, by means of a fine copper wire,so that when the birds fly the wind will blow through the whistlesand set them vibrating, thus producing an open-air concert, for theinstruments in one and the same flock are all tuned differently. On aserene day in Peking, where these instruments are manufactured withgreat cleverness and ingenuity, it is possible to enjoy this aerialmusic while sitting in one's room.
"There are two distinct types of whistles--those consisting of bambootubes placed side by side, and a type placed on the principle oftubes attached to a gourd body or wind chest. They are lacquered inyellow, brown, red, and black to protect the material from destructiveinfluences of the atmosphere. The tube whistles have either two, three,or five tubes. In some specimens the five tubes are made of ox-horninstead of bamboo. The gourd whistles are furnished with a mouthpiece,and small apertures to the number of two, three, six, ten, and eventhirteen. Certain among them have besides, a number of bamboo tubes,some on the principal mouthpiece, some arranged around it. Thesevarieties are distinguished by different names. Thus a whistle with onemouthpiece and ten tubes is called 'the eleven-eyed one.'"
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Transcriber's Notes:
Added table of contents.
Italics are represented with _underscores_, bold with =equal signs=.
Replaced oe ligatures with oe for the text edition (they are retainedin the HTML version).
Page 1, changed "who" to "whose" ("whose past record") and changed"Motor Mart" to "Motor Matt" ("who aids Motor Matt").
Page 4, added missing italics to "helped the skipper sail the_Christina_."
Page 8, changed "gratfying" to "gratifying."
Page 15, changed "dutsy" to "dusty" ("clothes were dusty").
Page 17, changed "intrrupted" to "interrupted" after "now I rise toyou."
Page 29, changed "wtih" to "with" ("with the regularity oftirelessness").
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