“We have also sound–houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds and their generation. We have harmony which you have not, of quarter–sounds and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep, likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp; we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire.” ‘The New Atlantis’, Francis Bacon