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Vide BARREL ORGAN 2. Warfe (har’-fé), G. A harp. Harfen ba (hiar’fén-ba ). A ba of broken chords. Harfensaite. Harp string. Harfenspieler. Harpist. Harfenett. VidespiTzHARFE. Harfeninstrumente. Instrs. whose strings are plucked. H.-laute. Vide DITAL. Harke (hiar’-ke), G. Fork for ruling staves. Harmo’nia, L. Daughter of Mars and Venus; music in general. Harmonic. As an adjective. Musical, concordant; relating to harmony (i. e., to chords, etc. as) opposed to melody) and to the theory of music. h. chord. A generator and its harmonics. (Vide below.) h. curve. The figure described by a string in vibration. h. figuration. Broken chords, often with pa ing notes. h. hand. Vide GurponiAn. h. mark. A small circle over a note to be played as an harmonic. h. note, tone, vide the noun HARMONIC. h. scale. The series of partials (vide ACOUSTICS, page 718). h. stop. A flute or reed stop having its pipes pierced midway, so that the harmonics predominate over the fundamental tone, hence h. flute and h. reed. h. triad. Major triad. h. trumpet. The sackbut. As a noun (frequently used in the plural). x. One of the many partial tones that go to make up the compound vibration we call tone, this compound being called by the name of its generator. (Vide acoustics.) 2. A vibrating string when lightly touched at a nodal point (as that of a half, 3d, 4th, or 5th, etc., of the string’s length) will vibrate in divisions (2, 3, 4, or 5, etc.), each division sounding the same tone respectively an octave, a rath, 1sth or 17th, etc., higher than the string. These produce a choir-like unison of exquisite sweetne whose flutine has given them the name flageolet tones. These harmonics if produced from an open string are called natural; from a stopped string, artificial. Harmonics are called for by the word flageolet or its abbr. fl.; or the words fiautando, flauta to, or fléte, or by a small circle (0) called the harmonic mark over the note to be touched, or by writing a black note indicating the open string, a diamond-headed note above it showing where the string is to be touched, and a small note above to indicate the actual Com sound. Harmonics. Grave binational tones. “Properly speaking, the harmonics of any compound tone are other compound tones of which the primes are partials of the original compound tone of which they are said to be harmonics.” stale [by Bee (See article Harmonic Warnings For Composers, page 748.) Harmon’‘ica. 1. An arrangement by Benj. Franklin of musical gla es in a scale, on a spindle turned by 2 treadle. The gla es were moistened in a trough, and as they revolved melodies and chords could be played. F. called his device armonica. 2. The mouth-harmonica or harmonicon is a reed mouth-instr. producing different tones when the breath is inhaled and exhaled. 3. A delicate stop. Harmonica-atherisch (a/-tér-ish), G. A delicate mixtures top. harmonichord. Vide PIANO VIOLIN.