The New Atlantis

We also have sound-houses
Where we practice and demonstrate all sounds in their generation
We have harmonies 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
Together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet
We represent small sounds as well as great and deep
Likewise great sound
Extenuate and sharp
We make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds
Which in their original are entire
We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters and the voices and notes of beasts and birds
We have certain helps
Which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly
We also have strange and artificial echoes
Reflecting the voice many times
And as if it were tossing it
And some that give back the voice louder than it came
Some shriller, some deeper
Yea
Some rendering the voice
Differing in the letters or articulate sound
From that they receive
We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes
In strange lines
And distances