Show in ft barber shop it we go from the gentleman B par lor to the barber 8 shop ot the six century we find evidences ot the popularity 0 music leople would seem to have had more time in choso days than now and do not appear to have minded waiting as much as moderns and eo the barber provided means to amuso those who were waiting their turn for this purpose be had the virginals virgi nals in one corner the virginal being a stringed instrument the precursor of our piano in which by pressing keys like our pi ano keys the firings were struck not by a hammer as in our piano bat by a or elastic piece ot wood ot leath cr or ot metal A virginal of rilza beths time la belll preserved in the south kensington museum in eca land s |