1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: Cornelius Ward
527. WARD, CORNELIUS, 36 Great Titchfield Street — Inventor, Patentee, and Manufacturer.
Kettle-drum, which can be adjusted to any required note, within the range of one octave, with rapidity and accuracy, and also may be set to any note without sounding it.
Bass drum, both the heads of which can be tuned at once by one operation. Bass drum, wherein the tension of the heads is quickly adjusted by means of iron rods, whereby permanent order is obtained. This drum con• tains cymbals, and both drum and cymbals can be used at pleasure together or separately. Thus precision is insured; one man required in lieu of two, and the cymbals are safe from accident.
Side or signal drum, with iron bracings and two sets of snares adjustible at once. Drum, both the heads of which are adjusted by one screw.
Flute, with the natural proportion of tube required for each note of its scale.
Bassoon of new construction.
All patented or provisionally registered.
[The bassoon or fagotto is the bass hautboy. The word bassoon is derived from buss sound, and fagotto from fagot, it being composed of several pipes bound together. —H. E. D.]