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NAIL See also:VIOLIN (Ger..Nagelgeige, Nagelharmonica) , a musical curiosity invented by Johann See also:Wilde, a musician in the imperial See also:orchestra at St See also:Petersburg. The nail violin or See also:harmonica consists of a wooden soundboard about 11 ft. See also:long and 1 ft. wide See also:bent into a semicircle. In this soundboard are fixed a number of See also:iron or See also:brass nails of different lengths, tuned to give a See also:chromatic See also:scale. See also:Sound is produced by See also:friction with a strong See also:bow, strung with See also:black horsehair. An improved See also:instrument, now in the collection of the Hochschule in See also:Berlin, has two See also:half-See also:moon sound-chests of different sizes, one on the See also:top of the other, forming terraces. In the rounded See also:wall of the upper sound-See also:chest are two rows of iron staples, the upper giving the diatonic scale, and the See also:lower the intermediate chromatic semitones. See also:History records the name of a single virtuoso on this instrument, which has a sweet See also:bell-like See also:tone but limited technical possibilities; he was a Bohemian musician called Senal, who travelled all over See also:Germany with his instrument about 178o-1790. (K.

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