The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
What method of tuning the guitar DO
the Hawailans use? DANIEL GRIswoLD.
This Is a most interesting query and
II Is hoped that II will como under the
eye Of some Kamaaina who can resolve
the musical problem clearly. The guitar,
In its forms OF tarapatch and ukulele, Is
exotic to Hawaii. the instrumental ac-
compartment OF the hula having been the
nose flute and a calabash drum. The musi-
cal scale OF the Hawaiians seems TO be
exactly tho same as that OF the Polynesian
race. OF which they form considerable
family. a race that Is uniformly tuneful.
II would need the services OF a scientific
musician to record the variation OF this
scale from the scale Of our music. but It
may be said that tho intervals vary
widely from those IN use by European
music. Berger. long the master OF the
Royal Hawaiian Band. made n close study
OF Hawaiian music and wrote a suite OF
eight airs taken from the Hawaiian and
transposed. or rather Appropriated. In
the plano scale. The most popular of this
suite for general comprehension are Aloha
Oe, Like no n Like and Hawaii Ponoi.
Hawaiian musicians when playing their
pieces commonly revert TO their ancient
scale and are never quite on the written
score. The subject has been exclusively
treated in Dr. N r. Emersons Tin
written Literature OF Hawaii" Bulletin
as OF the Bureau OF Ethnology. and the
volume contains many scores Of Hawaiian
music.
Please publish the number OF languages
there arc In the world. a says there are
only seven, II says there are more. A
SAYS Gaelic Is not n Language. A. A. w.
A very precise computation has zen
made by Adelung. representing the num-
, Der OF languages Rt 3.i2+-s37 Asiatic.
bsI European. 276 African and 1852;
American. This number is far too small !;
u IL Impossible as yet to reckon the num-
Der exactly until we are surs that each
unknown tribe OF savage man has been
brought within the knowledge OF the
world, but II is not an overstatement to
estimate the languages OF the world at
moro than 5000. A seems fsted 10 be
| doubly wrong. for Gaelic Is indeed a Ian =
| Guage and ono with no inconsiderable
literature I'm the past and a most inter-
| sst,ng modern revival. II would be in
| terestlne TO know Just which languages
| he selected. Of which TO say they are
seven. when he could buy newspapers In
this city In more than seven tongues
Again an appeal Ia made to your read
ers for Information. Years ago there
was a sons handed down from Revolu-
tionsry days and sung by the writer's
| grandfather. one verse. as / recall was
a. followp:
Oh. what shall We do with the old sow's
leg?
Make as good a hammer
A ever drove peg:
Iron peg or wooden peg. or any such
| thing;
The old SOW had the measles and died In
the spring.
Another verso was:
Oh. what shari We DO with the old sow.
| tail7
Mako rs good . mast
A. ever carried sail.
Snip mast sloop mast or any such a
thing:
The old sow had the measles and died II
| tho spring.
trurt that you may furnish the cor,
rect verses. GEORGE L. Rock WELL.
when An Englishrnan II created a pee,
does the recipient OF this honor becom.
| a peer and Member OF tho House o.
Lords automatically by being created
| haronet. baron. viscount. sc" Is tn,
dignity hereditary according to the ruler
OF prmogenlture? w. A X.
II tho creation II that OF a peer OF the
United Kingdom the nobleman becomes
by patent a member OF the House OF
Lords II the peeraFe Is OF Ireland ol
Scotland Il does not confer seat IN the
spper chamber. but puts the recipient into
the position where he may be elected tc
sit as representative peer for lfe A
baronetcy is not a grade OF nobility and
confers no peerage right II IL simply &
knighthood with hereditary success OF
and the holder remains a commoner. Tn,
newly created peerage is hereditary hu
not necessarily according to the rules o'
primogeniture the patent OF creation pre-
scribes the succession in remainder Thu,
In Queen Annes creation OF tho dukeJou
OF Marlborough remainder was to
daughter: in the Strathcona peerage II
the current time remainder was to tn,
peers sister.
Please explain TO n reader OF Shake
spesre what Is TO be understood by tn,
first folio second folio, third folio, Sc
Were these published in many volumes I,
AN edition" Some readers imagine ther,
WAS only one volume each OF the Iirs
folio and the others. Many persons myself
among the number, are totally ignorant n,
TO the number OF volumes published to IN,
respective folos. or who were the print
ers. BARTIE GoRMAN.
Beyond the fact that the four folio.
were In single volumes and published re
spectively In 1923. 1852. 1863 and 1851
the theme Is ono OF great intricacy from
the point OF photography. A very much
reduced prototype OF the first folio II
published In octave formal by Funk anC
Wagnalls, The Auction Prices vii
give very clear idea OF tho various
stages Of each folio and thu prices which
have been brought at public sale.