NEW-INVENTED TAMBORINE, TABOR, OR DRUM, AND PIPE, AND ANNEX OR JOIN THE SAME IN OR TO BARREL ORGANS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, AND TO MAKE, CONSTRUCT, AND BUILD SUCH BARREL ORGANS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR THE SAME, SO AS TO BEAT AND PLAY THE SAID TAMBORINE, TABOR, OR DRUM, AND PIPE THEREWITH AT PLEASURE
Year: 1789

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
GODFRY, of Tufton Street, in the Parish of Saint John, Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, Organ Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighth day of December, in the thirtieth year of His reign,
did grant unto me, the said George Godfry, my exors, admors, and assigns,
special licence that I, the said George Godfry, my exors, adiñors, and assigns,
during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED TAMBORINE, TABOR, OR DRUM, AND
PIPE, AND ANNEX OR JOIN THE SAME IN OR TO BARREL ORGANS AND MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS, AND TO MAKE, CONSTRUCT, AND BUILD SUCH BARREL ORGANS AND
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR THE SAME, SO AS TO BEAT AND PLAY THE SAID
TAMBORINE, TABOR, OR DRUM, AND PIPE THEREWITH AT PLEASURE;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said George Godfry,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent should determine and be void, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Godfry (in compliance with
and in pursuance of the said power in the said in part recited Letters Patent
contained), by this Instrument in writing under my hand and seal, do ascertain
and more particularly describe the nature of my said Invention in the said
Letters Patent mentioned, and declare the same to be in manner and form
following, that is to say :-
I make the frames of the tamborine, tabor, or drum in two or more parts,
and square, round, oval, or other form, and of wood, copper, brass, tin, iron,
steel, or other metal, and I head or cover the same with parchment, vellum,
leather, silk, oil cloth, or brass. I make a straining frame for the same, and
shaped according to the form and make of the tamborine, tabor, or drum, or
not, and of wood, or of brass or other metal, and put and place the straining
frame in the inside of the said tamborine, tabor, or drum, and I unite the
frames so headed or covered by screws in and through the same and nuts
thereon, or by pins, wires, or other fastenings, and to the said tamborine, tabor,
or drum is the common or usual snare; and the said tamborine, tabor, or
drum so made I annex to barrel organs or other musical instruments by first
constructing and making or building such barrel organ or other musical
instruments after the common and usual manner, and to be played upon after
the usual method, with the following additions (that is to say) :-
If a barrel organ, I prick or cause to be pricked on the barrel pins for the
purpose of making a hammer or drumstick beat on the said tamborine, tabor,
or drum, according to the time of the tune and tunes set on the barrel, with a key
in the key frame to touch and take the said pins in playing; and I also prick or
cause to be pricked in and upon the barrel staples for the purpose of making
the said hammer or drumstick beat to time, and distinguish and regulate the
dance, with a key in the key frame of the organ to touch and take the said
staples in playing; and the said tamborine, tabor, or drum, made as aforesaid, or
otherwise as after mentioned, I fix or fasten to and upon a bar or piece of
wood, or bar or piece of brass or other metal, which reaches unto or lyes
between the two ends of the organ, at the one end whereof is a joint or hinge,
and is fixed or fastened to the case of the organ, and the other end rests upon
the case or frame of the organ, or on a draw stop or key in the organ made
for raising or lowering the tamborine, tabor, or drum, so as the hammer or drum-.
stick may beat harder or softer at pleasure. I fix or cause to be fixed in the
inside of the case or on the frame of the organ a frame whereto I hang or
cause to be hung the hammer or drumstick, with a spring thereto annexed,
and a wire or rod made of copper, iron, or other metal, or slip of wood, from
the end of the hammer or drumstick to the key fixed in the key frame, which

page_text: comes unto and upon the said pins pricked as aforesaid for the purpose of
making the hammer or drumstick beat to time. I make or cause to be made,
in the frame or case of the organ, a stop whereto is annexed a string or wire,
which passes across the organ, and through the frame whereto the hammer or
drumstick is hung, and then fastened to the drumstick or hammer, and
whereby the hammer or drumstick is made to beat or be silent at pleasure; and
I otherwise make the hammer or drumstick to beat to time, and distinguish
or regulate the dance, by a leaver or movement which I make or cause to be
made and hung in the frame of the organ case, or to a frame or bar thereto
annexed or fastened, and whereto is joined a wire or rod of copper, brass, or
other metal, or slip or piece of wood, which reaches unto and is united with
the key in the key frame of the organ which comes unto and upon the staples
pricked upon the barrel for that purpose; and I also annex or cause to be
annexed with the said tamborine, tabor, or drum to the said organ or other
musical instruments one or more pipe or pipes placed, fixed, or fastened hori-
zontally or upright in such organ or musical instrument, tuned to the said
tamborine, tabor, or drum, and to play therewith, or not, at pleasure, by a key
or keys on the barrel pricked for that purpose. I also join, unite, fix, or fasten
the tamborine, tabor, or drum in the inside of the organ by hanging the same
on edge by a wire spring or other fastening, or by laying the same horizontally
or flat on one or more wires or springs fixed and running from side to side or
end to end of the organ, and over the above-mentioned key frame I make a
hammer or drumstick of a size proportionable of ivory, ebony, wood, or
metal. I hang or fix the same in a frame at one side or end of the organ, and
over or on one side of the tamborinc, tabor, or drum, with a spring made of
iron, steel, or other metal thereto, and to the frame annexed or fastened, and
to which is fixed or fastened one end of a string or wire, and the other end
of the said spring or wire is fixed to a stop in the end or side of the organ,
and a stop key to raise or fall the said tamborine, tabor, or drum, and thereby
the said hammer or drumstick is made to strike or beat hard or soft, or not to
beat at all, as most agreeable and at pleasure. To the hammer or drumstick
is fastened or annexed also a line or rod which reaches the key frame of the
organ, and is fixed to a key that comes to the barrel of the organ whereon is
pricked pins which regulate the beat of the hammer or drumstick to the tune.
I also fix a leaver on the inside, which is raised or lowered by a stop or key,
From the leaver is hung or fixed a wire or rod of brass, iron, or other metal,
which joins to the key in the key frame, which reaches the barrel whereon is
pricked staples to regulate the sets and changes in the dance or time to be
observed. The pipe or pipes so placed in the organ as before mentioned is

page_text: and are filled and blown by the bellows in the organ. I annex the said tam-
borine, tabor, or drum, and also the pipe or pipes tuned thereto, in other
musical instruments, by placing the same therein, and fastening them thereto in
such way and manner as before described, and as the built of such musical
instruments will permit; and the same are played and actuated upon by a key
or keys made in such musical instruments for the purpose, and by the bellows
to such instrument.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Godfry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventh day of January, in the thirtieth year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace
of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and ninety.