MAKING AND TUNING THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CALLED THE PEDAL HARP, BY WHICH THE HALF AND QUARTER NOTE IS PRODUCED THEREON WITH PECULIAR SWEETNESS AND HARMONY, AND THE PURTHER ADDITION OF AN HARMONIC STOP MADE THERETO, AND ALSO CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN TUNING THE VIOLIN AND OTHER STRINGED INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
JUBB, of Bridge Row, in the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the
County of Middlesex, White Smith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty was graciously pleased to grant unto me,
the said Richard Jubb, my exors, admors, and assigns, Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and five, by which said Letters Patent His - said
Majesty did give and grant unto me, the said Richard Jubb, my exors, admors,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority,
that I, the said Richard Jubb, my executors, adiñors, and assigns, and every of
them, by himself and themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants
or agents, or such others as I, the said Richard Jubb, my exors, admors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
might lawfully make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention in "MAKING
AND TUNING THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CALLED THE PEDAL HARP, BY WHICH THE
HALF AND QUARTER NOTE IS PRODUCED THEREON WITH PECULIAR SWEETNESS
AND HARMONY, AND THE PURTHER ADDITION OF AN HARMONIC STOP MADE THERETO,
AND ALSO CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN TUNING THE VIOLIN AND OTHER STRINGED
INSTRUMENTS," within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-

page_text: Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Richard Jubb, my exors, admors,
and assigns, or any of them, should in my or their discretion seem meet; in
which said Letters Patent there is, amongst other things, contained a proviso,
whereby it is declared that if I, the said Richard Jubb, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the 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, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and
become void, any thing therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
any wise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Jubb, do hereby declare that my said Invention and improvement
on the musical instrument called the harp, is shewn by and consists of the
several parts contained in the annexed Drawing, and which are pointed out by
the several Figures and letters therein contained, and the several applications
thereof as therein mentioned and set forth, that is to say:-
Fig. 1 shows the frame for the arbors and cranks edgways, with the adjusting
rollers or axles marked thereon A, A, which is fixed on the end of the arbors
marked B, B, for producing the quarter note and half note by the pressure of
the foot on the pedal, and is turned by a wrest pin similar to those in
common use.
Fig. 2 shews a front view of the plate, with the adjusting rollers or axles
marked C on the end of the arbors, with the position of the strings leading to
the wrest pins at D. This method of attaching and adjusting rollers will be
found by its simple construction to produce the full effect of the rings and
slides, &c. mostly made use of, and perfectly removes that discord which
which is found to be in the common harp.
Fig. 3 is an edge view of the plate, shewing another way of tuning the
harp with more accuracy, and is done by applying an endless screw and wheel
to the adjusting roller or axles, as at letter E, which, by the pressure of the foot
on the pedal, has the same effect on the quarter note and half note as described
in Figure I., and is equally applicable to the tuning of the violin and other
stringed instruments, and is also by me here set forth as the mode in which my
improvements are effected in tuning the violin and other stringed instruments.
F, in Fig. 4, is a frame which the endless screw and wheel is fixed upon;
G is a box to cover the endless screw and wheel; H is an adjusting roller for
regulating the quarter note and half note; I is a brass tube with a stud Y to

page_text: fasten the string on; K is a washer; L is a nut for confining them on the
arbor; M shews the endless screw; and N, the wheel; O is a millet-headed
screw to keep the regulating roller in its situation.
Fig. 5 shews the situation of the seven pedals, &c.; P, P, shews two levers
that opens the swells.
Fig. 6 shews the two levers marked Q, Q; and R is a lever and screw
for regulating the wire from the machinery to the pedals; S shews a link
plate for connecting the levers together; T, T, are two cheeks for supporting
the lever; U is a rack for stopping the pedal on the quarter note and half
note; Z shews a spring acting with pedal.
Fig. 7 shews the position of a damper or harmonical stop, which may
be made either of wood or metal, with buff leather, sponge or any thing of an
elastic nature fixed on the edge of the stop next to the strings; W shews a
spring lever which is placed on the pillar to receive the end of the stop; ✗ is
a plate which is placed on the end of the comb to support the harmonical stop
as is seen in the Drawing, along the centre of the harp.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Jubb, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and five.
Sealed and delivered by the within-named
Richard Jubb, being first duly stamped, in
RICHARD (L.S.) JUBB.
Norfolk St., Strand.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourth day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1805, the aforesaid Richard Jubb came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and five.