[sdiy] An old quote (again)

[Gene Stopp]

Hi DIY,

Things kinda slow at work, so cleaning my desk and I found this old quote
again (it's on a plaque in my music room). I've sent it to the lists before,
but I think it's fun to re-send every once in a while. Now that we're firmly
entrenched in the 21st century this is more relevant than ever, for whatever
spooky reason. :)



Wee have also Sound-Houses, wher wee practise and demonstrate all Sounds,
and their Generation. Wee have Harmonies which you have not, of
Quarter-Sounds, and lesser Slides of Sounds. Diverse Instruments of Musick
likewise to you unknowne, some sweeter then any you have; Together with
Bells and Rings that are dainty and sweet. Wee represent Small Sounds as
Great and Deepe; Likewise Great Sounds, Extenuate and Sharpe; Wee make
diverse Tremblings and Warblings of Sounds, which in their Originall are
Entire. Wee represent and imitate all Articulate Sounds and Letters, and the
Voices and Notes of Beasts and Birds. Wee have certaine Helps, which sett to
the Eare doe further the Hearing greatly. Wee have also diverse Strange and
Artificiall Eccho's, Reflecting the Voice many times, and as it were Tossing
it; And some that give back the Voice Lowder then it came, some Shriller,
and some Deeper; Yea some rendring the Voice, Differing in the Letters or
Articulate Sound, from that they receyve. Wee have also meanes to convey
Sounds in Trunks and Pipes, in strange Lines, and Distances.

>From "The New Atlantis" by Francis Bacon
1624



Best Regards,

- Gene