 | British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...honoured with the appellation of vox humana, no one, in the treble part, has ever reminded me of any thing human so much as of the cracked voice of an old woman...the lower parts, of Punch singing through a comb." The organ was built by MQller in the year 1739. It has sixty stops, several of which are not known... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1864 - 508 pages
...appellation of vox humand, no one in the treble part has ever reminded us of anything human, so much as the cracked voice of an old woman of ninety, or, in...the lower parts, of Punch singing through a comb." Let us hope that this most irreverent description will not apply to the vox humana of our instrument,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1864 - 490 pages
...appellation of vox humana, no one in the treble part has ever reminded us of anything human, so much as the cracked voice of an old woman of ninety, or, in...the lower parts, of Punch singing through a comb." Let us hope that this most irreverent description will not apply to the vox humana of our instrument,... | |
 | Music - 1890 - 840 pages
...yet heard which have been honoured by the appellation of Vox humana, no one, in the treble part, has ever yet reminded me of anything human, so much as...the stop has sometimes a weird effect which is not unimpressive, but distinctness is quite fatal. The Vox humana should be placed in a box of its own... | |
 | Church music - 1906 - 868 pages
...heard, which have been honored with the appellation of vox humana, no one in the treble part has ever reminded me of anything human, so much as of the cracked...in the lower parts of Punch singing through a comb. " N a letter written by Samuel Wesley to Vincent Novello (1829) published in The. Music Quarterly of... | |
 | Charles Burney - Europe - 1927 - 304 pages
...confesses that, of all the "vox humina " stops he hid heard, " no one, in the treble part, has ever reminded me of anything human, so much as of the cracked...in the lower parts, of Punch singing through a comb " Dr. Burney, having lightened his purse at the Amsterdam music and book sellers, passed on, probably... | |
 | Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman - Mathematics - 1999 - 358 pages
...appellation of vox humana, no one in the treble part has ever reminded us of anything human, so much as the cracked voice of an old woman of ninety, or, in...the lower parts, of Punch singing through a comb." George Ashdown Audsley's The Art of Organ Building, 2 vols. (1905; New York: Dover, 1965) gives this... | |
 | American essays - 1863 - 794 pages
...appellation of vox humana, no one in the treble part has ever reminded us of anything human, so much as the cracked voice of an old woman of ninety, or, in...the lower parts, of Punch singing through a comb." Let us hope that this most irrevereat description will not apply to the vox l,amana of our instrument,... | |
 | American essays - 1863 - 834 pages
...appellation of vox humana, no one in the treble part has ever reminded us of anything human, so much as the cracked voice of an old woman of ninety, or, in...the lower parts, of Punch singing through a comb." Let us hope that this most irreverent description will not apply to the vox humana of our instrument,... | |
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... into the propriety of the name, or exactness of the imitation. However, with respect to my own feelings, I must confess, that of all the stops I have yet heard, which have been honoured... 