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AWM.738.012
11-18 May 1738:11 (959)
A letter from Paris, January 4. In the course of this month
will be shewn at the hotel de Langueville, a statue
representing a man playing on the flute in the same taste
with that in the Thuilleries; it will hold a real common
flute made of box, and play several airs without any body
touching it. The motions of the lips and fingers are so
easy and exact, as not only to form all the natural sounds,
but to give them all the ornaments and graces they are
capable of: It draws out, swells, or diminishes a note,
gives the [?louder], the soft, the complaining, or the full,
the blustering warlike sound to such a degree, that the
statue seems to be animated, and touch'd with what it plays.
Several persons of distinction have seen in perform, and
look upon it as a masterpiece of machinery.
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