"39. Are there stringed instruments with sympathetic strings (_i.e._, strings placed under those strings which are played upon. The sympathetic strings merely serve to increase the sonorousness)? "40. What are the musical intervals in which the stringed instruments are tuned? "41. Do the people possess any musical instrument of a very peculiar construction? If so, describe it minutely. "42. Give the name of each instrument in the language of the country. "43. Describe each instrument, and give illustrations, if possible. "44. Give some account of the makers of musical instruments; of the woods, metals, hide, gut, hair, and other materials they use; of their tools, etc. "45. What are the usual adornments and appendages of the musical instruments? "_Compositions:_-- "46. On what order of intervals is the music of the people founded? Is it the Diatonic Major Scale (like _c_, _d_, _e_, _f_, _g_, _a_, _b_, _c_)? Or the Diatonic Minor Scale (in which the third is flat; like _c_, _d_, _e flat_, _f_, _g_, _a_, _b_, _c_)? Or the Pentatonic Scale (in which the fourth and the seventh are omitted, thus _c_, _d_, _e_, _g_, _a_, _c_)? Or some other order of intervals? "47. Is the seventh used sharp (_c_-_b_), or flat (_c_-_b flat_)? "48. Does the superfluous second occur in the scale? (In the example _c_, _d_, _e flat_, _f sharp_, _g_, _a flat_, _b_, _c_, |__________| |______| the steps from the third to the fourth, and from the sixth to the seventh, are superfluous seconds.) "49. Does the music contain progressions in semitones, or chromatic intervals? "50. Are there smaller intervals than semitones, such as 1/3 tones, 1/4 tones? "51. Are there peculiar progressions in certain intervals which are of frequent occurrence in the tunes? If so, what are they? "52. Do the tunes usually conclude on the tonic (the key-note, or the first interval of the scale), or, if not, on what other interval? "53. Do the tunes contain modulations from one key into another? If so, describe the usual modulations. "54. Are there certain rhythmical peculiarities predominant in the music? If so, what are they? "55. Is the time of the music generally common time, triple time, or irregular? "56. Are there phrases or passages in the melodies which are of frequent re-occurrence? "57. Have the airs of the songs re-occurrences of musical phrases which are traceable to the form of the poetry? "58. Have the people musical compositions which they regard as very old? and do these compositions exhibit the same characteristics which are found in the modern ones? "59. Are the compositions generally lively or grave? "60. Describe the form of the various kinds of musical compositions. "_Performances:_-- "61. Have the people musical bands or orchestras? "62. Which are the instruments generally used in combination? "63. Which are the instruments commonly used singly?