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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1913.
Next month the Lord Nelson and the Agamcanon will pass into the Fourth Battle Squadron at Gibraltar, their place in the Second Battle Squadron being taken by the Ajax and Audacions. We have no occasion to be particularly prond of oursolres over the tardy completion of these two vessels.
They belong to the programme of 1910, and forty months have elapsed from the time when they first appeared in the Navy Estimates to the date of their, com- plotion. Twenty-nine months have clapsed since the orders for them were tardily given. Our official period of construction, twenty-four months, has become “a fond thing vainly invented," so for us contract- built ships are concerned, at any rate,,
First of all, vessels are not ordered till the very end of the financial year to which. they nominally belong, and sometimes even after that has expired, and thei strikes and non-delivery of umterial
The sister-ships cause further delay.
King George V. and Centurion, have already been in commission about six months, while the battle-crtiser Queen Mary, of the same programme, is not yet completed, and will not join the fleet till after these two belated ships.
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complete addition, we shall have a squadron of battle-cruisors (when the New Zealand returns) in home waters, and another in the Mediterranean. The first two squadrons of the First Fleet will be thus constituted:--
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and sluggish compared to that of the harpsichord, whose mechanism was far more simple. The new invention, Inter known as forte piano, and piano forte- or, 30 German, hammerklavier-bad It uphill work to obtain recognitiori. appears almost to have died out in Italy. Silbermann, About 1,725. it was revived by
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a famous organ builder at Dresden, who imitated Cristoferi's action, and three of NO. 2, MOUNTAIN VIEW, THE PEAK whose instruments Potsdam.
In 1767 it was
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In the piano, as everyone knows, sound is produced by striking highly stretched steel wires with little hammers. There are four ways of setting a musical string in vibration. The first is by plucking 80 13,5in.
with the fingers, or a picctrum, as on the rodice: 106,00016, harp and zither; the second is by draw
are preserved at The total broadside the twoing a bow across the string as on the
Frederick the Great encour squadrons, including the Neptune, is thus violin; the third is by striking it with
to persevere, And 172,390.
a rebounding hammer, as on the dulcimer aged Silbermann and piano. In the fourth method, now introduced the pianoforte to Bach, who, obsolete, a metal tangent," after strik accustomed all his life to the clavichord At the same date, the first two divisions the string, remains pressed firmaly against and harpsichord, could not accommodate of the German Hochste Flotte will be it, allowing only a certain portion to himself to the touch of the piano, and, se composed of thirteen Dreadnought ships, vibrate. The last method was used in the Silbermann's great chagrin, expressed called the disapproval of it. However, the piano and four of the Deutschland class of ancient keyed instrument
It produced a sound so gradually won its way.
TO. pre-Dreadnoughts. Of these, four of the clavichord.
1913, Partly Farnished Dreadnoughts and the four pre-Dread delicate, so thermal, as to be inaudible played by Dibdin at Covent Garden as
a new instrument called Piano Forte, No. 104A. THE PEAK, from 1st November.
Apply- noughts will carry lin. guns, their except in a small room, and even there
the audience must listen with bated In the following year Bach's son, John
S. J. DAVID & Co.. primary weapons, while the reraaining breath. Yet auch was its ineffable sweet Christian, played solos on it in London,
Prince's Building. nine Dreadnoughts carry the 12in. They ness and appeal to the imagination, that and by 1770 it was regularly installed a
Hongkong, th September, 1813. mount altogether 162 heavy guns, with
flourished
more Drury Lane. The older instruments con- broadside of 125,504, counting heavy centuries than the piano has yet existed, tinued in vogue till the early years of The late Mr. guns only.
There is rather a notable! The Minnesingers used it in 1404, if not the nineteenth century. falling off from our superiority of three earlier, and more than three hundred Higgins, one of the greatest authorities, indeed, that Beethoven's years ago, proportionally-
clavichord playing was founded eight Preludes and Fugues for it. Weight of broadside, first and second years later Bach wrote his famous forty considered.
His sonatas were, until 1802, Invented soon after the clavichord, and, technique. used alongside it, caue the various published for the harpsichord or piano is entitled instruments in which, on pressing a key, forte, but his Opus 196
plectrum of quill was caused to pluck Sonata fur das Hammerklavier,"
The early pianos, being originally The German weight of broadside bag the string, giving a far more powerful distinct from the harpsichord.
SoRnd than the clavichord method. The more than doubled in the time, while ours principle was used in the verginals, ou adapted from the harpsichord, took the has increased by something between 80 and, which Queen Elizabeth was so remarkable shape which was that known to us as the We are familiar with the grand:" 90 per cent. This falling off, however, in an adept, on the spinet, a small portable
instrument, and on individual keyboard
the up-right," formerly called the cottage of relative strength
Our grand- squadrons is inevitable, as the Germans harpsichord, the grand piano of those piano, and the pianette, complete ships more nearly approaching days. The harpsichord had an important fathers had the "square," imitated from
cabinet," Tours in power. We have to look to mum-place in the orchestra, where it filled in the clavichord, and the
Other attempts to harmonies, and struck a few chords to feet or more high. bers to redress the balance.
Our Third Squadron, consisting of the bring the band together when they went save space took the form of setting the
R King Edward VII. class, has still an over- astray. Its tone, though very attractive grand upon end, and resulted in the 65 DANFURLY," No. 11, Conduit Road.
giraffe, the pyamidon," the "lyra."
GODOWNS, 94, Wanchai Road, 102, Praya whelming superiority over the Germa could not be increased or diminished Third Division. And our First and except by the use of steps, or by the these names being suggested by their
Such forms seem to have been East.
Apply admirably conjunction of two keyboards acting on shapes. Squadrons are Second
two sets of strings differing in power. popular in South Germany, many speci homogeneous in type, while the German After the invention of the swell organ by mens being preserved in the museum at
Attempts
by were. made Second Division is not.
Jordan about 1712, harpsichords were Munich. sometimes provided with swell shutters mechanism acted on by stops, as on the diminishing the organ, to imitate the sound of the jute, for increasing and
The last the bassoon, and the druni. The composition of the Fourth Squadron sound, but their effect was very slight.
There It was Handel's custom to play a named Wes sometimes reproduced by remains at present unsatisfactory.
now fourteen ships available for harpsichord concerto between the acts of beating on the soundboard, which could distribution between it and the Sixth his operas. These were published for not have been very good for that delicate and are still organism; but the nost naive effort we Squadron of the Second Fleet, the Fifth the harpsichord or organ,
A have met with was on an carly German coni posed: of being
4layed on the latter instrument. Squadron homogeneous group of eight Formidables, singer, jealous of the applause that grand, which bad somehow found its way These fourteen are:-The Dreadnought, Handel's playing evoked, threatened to to a small hostelry near Genon. In this the Lord Nelson, and Aganumnon, five jump from the stage on the harpsichord, instrument, by stamping on a pedal, a Duneans, and six Canopus class. Unless and smash it. "Oh," said Handel, yos whole octave of bass notes, sharps and a complete redistribution is made the will jump, will you? Then please let all, were sounded simultaneously: That Fourth Squadron will consist of seven me know when you will jump, and I will is the drum," said the proud owner.-- ships-the Dreadnought, Lord Nelson, advertise it, and more people will come Globe. and Agamemnon, with four Duncans while the Sixth Squadron will consist of one Duncan and the Canopus class.
the
are
THE FOURTH SQUADRON.
to see you jump than to hear you sing.
Useful as the harpsichord was, there began to be felt a want of something more expressive. The clavichord was power- It would be better, one would think, to less to cope with orchestras and theatres, constitute the Fourth Squadron of the The dulcimer, however, could be playe Dreadnought, Lord Nelson, and five with varying degrees of loudness and Duncans, while leaving the six Canopus softness, according to the force with to constitute the Sixth Squadron 1t which the hammers were used, and the the problem was how to adapt hammers to a cireamstances had not required despate of the Triumph and Swiftsure keyboard. Many attempts seem to have kualā.
But in 1709 to the East, both squadrons might have been made with no result. been at full strength.
one Bartolomnco Cristoferi, a harpsi
But, in any case, the Fourth Squadron chord maker in Florence, succeeded in is not a fighting unit. The Dreadnoughts attaching hammers instead of plectra tu differ from the Lord Nelsons in her the keys of a harpsichord, and called the tactical capacity, and both from the new instrument "Gravicembalo ecl piano Duncans. The eight Formidables of the e forte," ie., harpsichord with the soft Fifth Squadron are a better combination, and loud," The problem thus solved was Homogeneity is, however, for the present, no light one, for the complicated action unattainable, so we mast rule the Fourth of the human hand regulated by intelli- Squadron out of our effective force, good gence, had to be reproduced by machinery, We need not be surprised. then that the pioneer efforts lelt much to be improved though its separate unite may be.
GERARD FIENNES,
on, and that the touch was found heavy
Six
PASSED THE CANAL.
August 12th-Diowed, Sunda, Titan. August 10th-Machaon,
Bayern, 22nd Albenga, August Sardinia.
August 26th-Annam, Altmark, Indra- August 29th-Kamo Maru, September 2nd-Armand Behic, Kouang 87. Macedonia, Goldenfels,
September 5th-Idomeneus, Sumatra, Calchas, Septen.ber 9th - Benavon, Indrasanika, Icleus. Ceylon, Denbighshire, Japan, Koerber, Monmouthshire, Mandasan Muru.
September 12th-Bohemia. Derflinger, Deucalion, Hitachi Karu, Jason, Prinzess Alice, Simia, Arabia, Freussen.
September 16th-Aki Maru, Astyanax, Flintshire, Glaucus, Nippon, Atlantique.
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SHOP with GODOWN attached, Nathan Road, Kowloon, Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48 with Wharf. Apply to
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Hongkong, 17th September, 1913,
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FFICES. ROOMS, and GODOWNS, on Ground and Second Floors, No. 14. DAN Voeux Road Central, the Premises now occupied by The South China Morning Post. Limited.
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The P.M. str. Siberia left Yokohama, for Hongkong via Manila on the 15th September. The United States mail kas been transferred to the M.M. str. Magellan, due to arrive in Hongkong on. the 23rd September.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL
The E. & A. atr. Eastern, from Sydney, eto., left Port Darwin on the 9th Septem- ber for this port via Timor and Manila, and may be expected to arrive here on the 20th September.
The N.Y.K. str. Inaba Mara (Austra lian Line) left Sydney for this port via ports on the 3rd September, and is ex- pected here on the 22nd September.
THE CANADIAN MAIL.
The U.P.R. str. Empress of Asia left Vancouver on the 10th September, a.m., and is due to arrive at Hongkong on the 29th September.
MERCHANT STEAMERS.
Tho T.K.K. str. Buyo Maru left Man- zanillo for Honolulu on the 28th July, and is due in Hongkong on the 20th September.
The N.Y.K. str. Iyo Maru (European Line) left Yokohama for this port via ports on the 10th September, and is expected here on the 22nd September.
The P. O. str. Syria left Singapore for this port on the 17th September, at 8 a.m., and is due here on the 22nd September, at about 8 a.m.
The N.V.K. str. Penang Muru (Bombay Line) left Bombay for this port via ports on the 8th September, and is expected here on the 26th September.
Maru
The N.Y.K. str. Yokohama (American Line) left Seattle for this port via ports on the 26th August, and is expected here on the 26th September.
The Swedish East Asiatic Co.'s str. Peking left Port Said on the 2nd Septem- ber, and is expected to arrive here on the 28th September.
The N.Y.K. str. Kanayawa Maru (Cal- cutta Line) left Calcutta for this port via ports on the th September, and is ex- pected here on the 28th September.
The Swedish East Asiatic Co.'s str. Japan left Port Said on the 7th Septem- ber, and is expected to arrive here on the 2nd October.
The N.Y.K. str. Aki Maru (European TO LET OR FOR SALE.
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East.
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The N.Y.K. str. Sanuki Maru (Ameri- can Line) left Seattle for this port vin ports on the 9th September, and is ex pected here on the 12th October.
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