5. Jubal, the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

That is to say, stringed and wind instruments;--the lyre and reed. The

first arts (with the Jew and Greek) of the shepherd David, and shepherd

Apollo.

Giotto has given him the long level trumpet, afterwards adopted so

grandly in the sculptures of La Robbia and Donatello. It is, I think,

intended to be of wood, as now the long Swiss horn, and a long and

shorter tube are bound together.

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