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MUSIC 285
There is such a thing as overdoing the musical temperament, as is evidenced by excess attention to every sound, and by attempting to locate each properly in the scale. Some souls indulge in constant whistling or humming in the endeavour to express every stray thought as a musical tune. Such individuals are apt to build beautiful daydreams and are constantly disturbed by discordant noises, which bring them nervousness, but which to the normal man bespeak life, bustle, and progress and are therefore music to his ears.
The expression of music may be made through either song or instrument. Both forms are quite ancient. The various instruments of the orchestra may all be traced to primitive devices. If you stretch a string or wire tightly and pluck it, it vibrates, giving forth a pleasing sound. If you close one end of a hollow tube and blow into the other, the air in the tube is set vibrating, with production of a different sort of sound. If you strike a thin piece of skin stretched over a box, or a piece of metal suspended by a string, they cause still different kinds of sound. From these three modes of creating sounds come the different kinds of musical instruments that we have to-day; for upon close examination, every type of musical instrument is seen to belong in one of the three groups. Those in which the sound comes from vibrating strings are known as "string instruments"; those in which a column of air is set in motion are called "wind instruments"; and those that vibrate by being struck are called "percussion instruments." Of the three groups the strings are the most numerous, and the piano is the best known. The harp has almost as many strings as the piano; but these, instead of being struck by a felt hammer, are plucked with the fingers. Other string instruments, which are played much like the harp, are the guitar, the mandolin, the banjo, and the zither. The violin, another important