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See also:PIPE AND See also:TABOR (Fr. galoubet; Ger. Schwegel or Stamenlienpfeiff)
, a popular See also:medieval See also:combination of a small See also:pipe or See also:flageolet, and a small See also:drum
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The pipe consists of a cylindrical See also:tube of narrow See also:bore, pierced with three holes, two in front and one at the back, all very near the end of the pipe; and of a See also:mouthpiece of the See also:kind known as See also:whistle, fipple or See also:beak See also:common to the fl4tes d tee or See also:recorder See also:family
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The See also:compass of this See also:instrument, with no more than three holes, exceeds two octaves in the hands of a See also:good player, and is See also:chromatic throughout
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The fundamental notes of the open pipe and of the three holes cannot be produced; the See also:scale consists, therefore, entirely of harmonics, the and, 3rd and 4th of the See also:series being easily obtained, and, by See also:half stopping the holes, also the semitones which are required to See also:complete the chromatic scale
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The See also:tabor being fastened to the performer's See also:left See also:elbow, the hands remained See also:free, the right beating the little drum with a stick to See also:mark See also:die See also:rhythm, while the left held and fingered the pipe with thumb and first two fingers
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1sdersenne mentions a wonderful virtuoso, See also:
The See also:body and tail are long and thin, snake-like, encased in hard integuments which are divided into regularly arranged segments
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This dermal See also:skeleton shows several See also:longitudinal ridges, so that a See also:vertical See also:section through the body represents an angular figure, not See also:round or See also:oval as in the See also:majority of other fishes
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A dorsal fin is always See also:present, and is the See also:principal (in some See also:species, the only) See also:organ of locomotion
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The ventral fins are as constantly absent, and the other fins may or may not be See also:developed
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The gill-openings are extremely small and placed near the upper posterior See also:angle of the gill-See also:cover
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Most of the pipe-fishes are marine, only a few being fluviatile
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Pipe-fishes are abundant on such coasts of the tropical and temperate zones as offer by their vegetation shelter to these defenceless creatures
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They are very See also:bad swimmers, slowly moving through the See also:water by means of the rapid undulatory See also:movement of the dorsal fin
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Their tail, even when provided with a caudal fin, is of no use in See also:swimming, and not prehensile as in sea-horses
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Specimens, therefore, are not rarely found at a See also:great distance from See also:land, having been resistlessly carried by currents into the open ocean; one species, Syngnathus pelagicus, has an extraordinarily wide range over the tropical seas, and is one of the common fishes inhabiting the vegetation of the Sargasso Sea
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The See also:colour of these fishes often changes with the sea-weeds among which they may be found, passing from See also: This marsupial pouch is formed by a See also:fold of the skin developed from each side of the See also:trunk or tail, the free margins of the fold being firmly See also:united in the median See also:line throughout the See also:period during which the eggs are being hatched . When the See also:young are hatched the folds See also:separate, leaving a wide slit, by which the young gradually See also:escape when quite able to take care of themselves . Nearly a See also:hundred different species of pipe-fishes are known, of which Siphonostoma typhle, Syngnathus acus (the Great Pipe-See also:fish up to 18 in. in length), Nerophis aequoreus (Ocean Pipe-fish), Nerophis ophidion (Straightnosed Pipe-fish), and Nerophis lumbriciformis (Little Pipe-fish) are See also:British species . The last three are destitute of a caudal fin . A See also:review of the extensive literature on the breeding habits of the Syngnathidae is given by E . W . Gudger, " The Breeding habits and the Segmentation of the See also:Egg of the Pipefish," Proc . U.S . Nat . See also:Mus . (1905), See also:xxix . |
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