16. _Trumpets sounded by flowing Water._

In the same manner as that just described the sound of trumpets can be

produced. Insert into a carefully closed vessel the tube of a funnel

reaching nearly to the bottom and soldered into the surface of the

vessel; and, by its side, a trumpet, provided both with a mouthpiece

and bell, and communicating at its upper extremity with the vessel.

If water be poured through the funnel, it will be found that the

air contained in the vessel, as it is being driven out through the

mouthpiece, will produce the sound of a trumpet.

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