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CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

CHINESE PAVILLON, See also:
TURKISH
TURKISH See also:
CRESCENT (Lat. crescens, growing)
CRESCENT, TURKISH JINGLE, or JINGLING JOHNNY (Fr. chapeau chinois; Ger. tiirkischer Halbmond, Schellenbaum; Ital. See also:
CAPPELLO, BIANCA (1548-1587)
cappello chinese) , an See also:

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument of percussion of indefinite sonorousness, i.e. not producing definite musical tones. The chapeau chinois was formerly an See also:

ADJUNCT (from Lat. ad, to, and jungere, to join)

adjunct in military bands, but never in the See also:

ORCHESTRA (Fr. Orchestre; Ger. Kapelle, Orchester; Ital. Orchestra)

orchestra, where an instrument of somewhat similar shape, often confused with it and known as the See also:

GLOCKENSPIEL, or ORCHESTRAL BELLS (Fr. carillon; Ger. Glockenspiel, Stahlharmonika; Ital. carnpanelli; Med. Lat. tintinnabulum, cymbalum, bombulum)

Glockenspiel (q.v.), is occasionally called into requisition. The Chinese See also:

PAVILION

pavilion consists of a See also:

pole about 6 ft. high terminating in a conical See also:

metal cap or pavilion, hung with small jingling bells and surmounted by a crescent and a See also:

STAR

star. Below this pavillon are two or more metal bands forming a fanciful See also:

double crescent or squat See also:

LYRE (Gr. Xupa)

lyre, likewise furnished with tiny bells. The two points of the crescent are curved over, ending in fanciful See also:

animal heads from whose mouths hang See also:

low streaming tails of See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse-See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair. The Chinese pavilion is played by shaking or waving the pole up and down and jingling the bells, a See also:

MOVEMENT

movement which can at best be but a slow one repeated once or at most twice in a See also:

bar to punctuate the phrases and add brilliancy to the military See also:

MUSIC

music. The Turkish crescent or " jingling Johnny," as it was familiarly called in the See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

army bands, was introduced by the See also:

JANISSARIES (corrupted from Turkish yeni cheri, new troops)

Janissaries into western See also:

EUROPE

Europe. It has fallen into disuse now, having been replaced by the glockenspiel or See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel See also:

HARMONICA

harmonica. See also:

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh University possesses two specimens.' In the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century at See also:

Bartholomew See also:

FAIR

Fair one of the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief bands hired was one well known as playing in See also:

LONDON

London on See also:

winter evenings in front of the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Spring-See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden See also:

COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee See also:

house and opposite Wigley's. This See also:

BAND

band consisted of a double See also:

DRUM (early forms drome or dromme, a word common to many Teut. languages, cf. Dan. tromme, Ger. Trommel: the word is ultimately the same as " trumpet," and is probably onomatopoeic in origin; it appears late in Eng. about the middle of the 16th century)

drum, a Dutch See also:

ORGAN

organ (see See also:

BARREL (a word of uncertain origin common to Romance languages; the Celtic forms, as in the Gaelic baraill, are derived from the English)

BARREL-ORGAN), a See also:

TAMBOURINE (Fr. tambour de Basque; Ger. baskische Trommel, Tambourin, or Schellen-trommel)

tambourine, a See also:

VIOLIN

violin, pipes and the Turkish jingle.2 (K.

End of Article: CHINESE PAVILLON, TURKISH CRESCENT, TURKISH JINGLE, or JINGLING JOHNNY (Fr. chapeau chinois; Ger. tiirkischer Halbmond, Schellenbaum; Ital. cappello chinese)

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