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Show MDSIC AMONG THE ANCIE.TS. Modern developments of ancient doings continue to make evident the fact that "there U nothing new under the sud." One of the latest discoveries is that even in musical science and art they of old time were familiar with the appliances as well as the principles of instrumental instru-mental music which were supposed to bavecomoto us from a far less remote period. The following interesting inter-esting article in illustration of this fact is taken from the .London Valfy Aetrs.' "Annmber of eminent muicians were Invited to listen to a highly interesting in-teresting lcnuro dellveied yesterday to the Koyal Academy studints by Mr. T. It. Southg-ite, upon ancient Kgy--tian musical instruments In genera), and upon the double jdpes recently dLscovercd by Mr. Flluders Petri ill tbo tomb at Kahun iu particular. From the fact that the times shown In tho frescoes were of varions lengths, Mr. Soulhgato conjectured that the njptlans almost froni tb0dmanf Moses must have had knoujaUe of some sort of harmony, whilq as In one of the frescoes seven iluto performers were simultaneously playing and an eighth had whit ho whimsically described de-scribed as 'fifty lurs rest.' " Mill mora interesting wari tho exhibition ex-hibition of the actual llutefl il,--JTered lu the ad san-ophn-rni) nt Kahuu, and indi-putably dating I-iforo the time of King Daid or Israel. Performed Per-formed uion (and tho task cl"pla Ing upou these archaic Instruments is now most difficult) by Mr. J. nun, they eterday gao practically the exact notes of our dlatmlc scale, thus pro -Ing in c cry snc or the term to actual demonstration that our scalo was kuonn to tbo 'gyjtians many centuries beforo the tlrecks, from whom It had orroneously been supposed sup-posed we borrowed It". No attempt was made to perform upon the double llnte,and, Indeed, If c er tho two were played together, tho art' Is now- lost, Ilut upon a copy of ono of these ancient flutes Mr. Finn informed a ery ancient funeral dirge entitled, Tho Song of Sonus.' The tone of these Instruments, wo may add, in no way rocmbles that of the flatcx of today. to-day. It to a certain extent recalls tbo drone of tho bagpipe, although ono prominent musician yostcnlay" Irreverently Irrev-erently likened It to the sonnd of the small-tooth comb and tissue paper of childhood's days. "Many other copies oi indent instruments in-struments were tried ycsterday,among them a replica of a fluto (discovered two years ago by a French savant), with eleven holes, the approximate date being 1575 11. C, that Is to say, during tho period that ths Israelites were still In Egypt. To "stop" elc en holes In a fl uto would seem to demand that one of the hands should ha- o an extra finger; bnt Mr. Finn, after many trials, has succeeded in doing it, and tho notes given were practically those of our chromatic scale. From these and other facts Mr. Souttgato, In the peroration to his cry valLablo lecture, contended that the tonality of tho ancient an-cient Egyptians was the source of our ou n music, and certainty none of tho musicians present wero.willingto contradict con-tradict a doctrino which, seems quite feasible." r , |