Excerpt from The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 10 And every one of the audience understood, from the sound of the banjo, what his words had been. The performer produced these tones by turning the keys and so shortening and lengthening the strings. If you tried the same thing on the piano, you would hardly succeed in making yourself understood, because you can not glide from one tone to the other on the piano. And that is the peculiarity of the intonations, that our voice does not rest on one tone a perceivable time, but glides or slurs in a continual portamento or springs up and down. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.