Wee have also Sound-Houses, wher wee
practise and demonstrate all Sounds, and
their Generation. Wee have Harmonies
which you have not, of Quarter-Sounds
and lesser Slides of Sounds. Diverse
Instruments of Musick likewise to you
unknowne, some sweeter than any you
have; Together with Bells and Rings that
are dainty and sweet. Wee represent
Small Sounds as Great and Deepe;
Likewise Great Sounds, Extenuate and
Sharpe; Wee make diverse Tremblings
and Warblings of Sounds, which in their
Originall are Entire. Wee represent and
imitate all Articulate Sounds and Letters,
and the Voices and Notes of Beasts and
Birds. Wee have certaine Helps, which sett
to the Eare doe further the Hearing
greatly. Wee have also diverse Strange
and Artificiall Eccho's, Reflecting the
Voice many times, and as it were Tossing
it; And some that give back the Voice
Lowder then it came, some Shriller, and
some Deeper; Yea, some rendring the
Voice, Differing in the Letters or
Articulate Sound, from that they receyve.
Wee have also meanes to convey Sounds
in Trunks and Pipes, in strange Lines, and
Distances.

- Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis, 1624



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