"Adventures in Stationery Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case is a non-fiction book by James Ward about stationery. It was published by British publisher Profile Books in 2014. In ""Adventures in Stationery"", James Ward presents the history of numerous items of stationery, integrated with his personal opinions and current trends. Some of the topics discussed include the invention of the ballpoint pen by László Bíró, the development of the Pritt glue stick, the design of the paperclip, the shape of Stabilo highlighters, the possible uses of Blu-Tack, and urban legends about the development of ballpoint pens during"
"Cromorne Cromorne is a French woodwind reed instrument of uncertain identity, used in the early Baroque period in French court music. The name is sometimes confused with the similar-sounding name crumhorn, a musical woodwind instrument probably of different design, called ""tournebout"" by French theorists in the 17th century (; ). By contrast, the crumhorn (also known by names including ""crum horn"", ""crumm horn"", ""Krummhorn"", ""Krummpfeife"", ""Kumbhorn"", ""cornamuto torto"", and ""piva torto"") is a capped double-reed instrument usually shaped like a letter ""J"" and possessing a rather small melodic range spanning a ninth (i.e. just over an octave) unless extended downward"
"Tortillon A tortillon (The French name for ; or blending stump) is a cylindrical drawing tool, tapered at the end and usually made of rolled paper, used by artists to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing utensils. A blending stump is similar to a tortillon but is longer, more tightly wrapped, and pointed at both ends. Tortillons produce slightly different textures than stumps when blending, and they also are hollow, as opposed to stumps being solid. Cleaning of tortillons and stumps usually involves removing the used outer layer of paper by scraping or"
"Rongorongo text Y Text Y of the rongorongo corpus, known as the Paris Snuff Box, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. Y is the standard designation, continuing from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR5. The nickname in French is ""La Tabatière."" ""Musée de l'Homme,"" Paris. Catalog # 62-47-5. A single unfluted tablet or part of a tablet, cut into pieces and assembled into a snuff box, 71 × 46–47 × 26–28 mm. It is variously said to be made from foreign driftwood or Pacific rosewood. The glyphs that remain, though crudely carved with a steel"
"Buisine The buisine (Old French; also, ""busine"", ""buysine"", ""buzine"") was a type of straight medieval trumpet usually made of metal, also called a herald's trumpet. It had a very long and slender body, usually one to two metres in length (some were reported to have been at least six feet in length) that tapered toward the end into a slightly flared bell. It is commonly seen in paintings being played by angels and often also bearing the banner of a nobleman. The term descends from ""Buccina"", a Roman military horn. The term is first found in the c1100 Chanson de"
"Psalterium (instrument) A psalterium , or ""tambourin à cordes"", is a stringed musical instrument, the name of which is synonymous with the psaltery. In specific usage, this name denotes a form of long psaltery that is tuned to provide drone chords. Sometimes called a ""string drum,"" though not to be confused with a friction drum also called a ""string drum,"" it is usually used as rhythm accompaniment with a form of tabor pipe. It is also known as ""tambourin de Béarn"" or ""Tambourin de Gascogne"" in French, ""ttun-ttun"" (for the sound emitted) in Basque, ""salmo"" in Spanish, and ""chicotén"" in"
"Pomander A pomander, from French ""pomme d'ambre"", i.e., apple of amber, is a ball made for perfumes, such as ambergris (whence the name), musk, or civet. The pomander was worn or carried in a vase, also known by the same name, as a protection against infection in times of pestilence or merely as a useful article to modify bad smells. The globular cases which contained the pomanders were hung from a neck-chain or belt, or attached to the girdle, and were usually perforated in a variety of openwork techniques, and made of gold or silver. Sometimes they contained several partitions,"
"(war trumpet), which had a fixed length. In Germany, the original word was ""Posaune"", appearing about 1450 and is still used today. This (as well as ""bason"") derives from ""busine,"" which is Latinate and meant straight trumpet. In Italy it was (and remains) ""trombone"", which derived from trumpet in the Latin ""tromba"" or ""drompten"", used in the Low Countries. The first records of it being used are around 1440, but it is not clear whether this was just a nickname for a trumpet player. In 1487 a writer links the words ""trompone"" and ""sacqueboute"" and mentions the instrument as playing"
"sink or toilet plunger), a sound featured as the voices of adults in the ""Peanuts"" cartoons. Trombone bells (and sometimes slides) may be constructed of different brass mixtures. The most common material is yellow brass (70% copper, 30% zinc), but other materials include rose brass (85% copper, 15% zinc) and red brass (90% copper, 10% zinc). Some manufacturers offer interchangeable bells. Tenor trombone bells are usually between in diameter, the most common being sizes from . The smallest sizes are found in small jazz trombones and older narrow-bore instruments, while the larger sizes are common in orchestral models. Bass trombone"
"a portmanteau word of ""trombone"" and ""bassoon"". Schickele called it ""a hybrid—that's the nicer word—constructed from the parts of a bassoon and a trombone; it has all the disadvantages of both."" It is called for in the scores of Schickele's fictional composer P. D. Q. Bach in the oratorio ""The Seasonings"", in ""Serenude (for devious instruments)"", and in ""The Preachers of Crimetheus, II. The Lamentations of Jerry Maja"". A sackbut is a type of trombone from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, characterised by its small bell. A distinctive form of tenor trombone was popularized in France in the early 19th"
"""Messe"" under John Eliot Gardiner. International Trombone Association Buccin The buccin is a visually distinctive trombone popularized in military bands in France between 1810 and 1845 which subsequently faded into obscurity. It should not be confused with another instrument of the same name, revived in France in 1791 and modeled after the ancient Roman buccina which could deliver only four distinct notes. In the ""New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians"", Arnold devotes but two sentences to this type of buccin: ""A form of trombone with a bell terminating in a stylized serpent’s or dragon’s head, often with a metal"
"commode in the form of half-moon form, and the ""commode dessert"", which had a door in the front with shelves on either side. The ""commode bonheur-du-jour"" was a dressing table for a boudoir, with a small armoire on top, with either a mirror or a curtain. The ""table a la Tronchin"" was a table with a built-in-shelf which could be raised by a mechanism for reading. some of the furniture was small and designed to be easily moved, to quickly re-earrange salons. These included the ""table bouillotte"", a small round table with four legs and drawer. The tables and cabinets"
"3 sets of 2 (6 total) is the common arrangement. Psalterium (instrument) A psalterium , or ""tambourin à cordes"", is a stringed musical instrument, the name of which is synonymous with the psaltery. In specific usage, this name denotes a form of long psaltery that is tuned to provide drone chords. Sometimes called a ""string drum,"" though not to be confused with a friction drum also called a ""string drum,"" it is usually used as rhythm accompaniment with a form of tabor pipe. It is also known as ""tambourin de Béarn"" or ""Tambourin de Gascogne"" in French, ""ttun-ttun"" (for the"
"rubbing the implement on an abrasive surface, such as sandpaper, carpet, pink rubber erasers, or an emery board. Some people also whittle off the tip if it becomes dull, or mashed in. The earliest use of the tortillon and blending stumps dates back to 1427. Tortillon A tortillon (The French name for ; or blending stump) is a cylindrical drawing tool, tapered at the end and usually made of rolled paper, used by artists to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing utensils. A blending stump is similar to a tortillon but is longer,"
"such items as paper knives, playing cards, ribbons, and scissors, apparently accidentally left lying around. Trompe-l'œil can also be found painted on tables and other items of furniture, on which, for example, a deck of playing cards might appear to be sitting on the table. A particularly impressive example can be seen at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, where one of the internal doors appears to have a violin and bow suspended from it, in a trompe l'œil painted around 1723 by Jan van der Vaardt. Another example can be found in the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College,"
"Sackbut A sackbut is a type of trombone from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, characterised by a telescopic slide that is used to vary the length of the tube to change pitch. Unlike the earlier slide trumpet from which it evolved, the sackbut possesses a U-shaped slide, with two parallel sliding tubes, which allows for playing scales in a lower range. Records of the term ""trombone"" predates the term ""sackbut"" by two decades, and evidence for the German term ""Posaune"" is even older. ""Sackbut"", originally a French term, was used in England until the instrument fell into disuse in the"
"catalogue) the frets are lettered A, D, F, A, D, F, G, A, B, C, D. In Germany, at the time when the trumpet was extensively used in the churches, nuns often substituted the tromba marina because women were not allowed to play trumpets—hence the name ""Nonnengeige"" (literally, ""nuns' violin""). In France, the Grande Ecurie du Roi comprised five trumpets-marine and cromornes among the band in 1662, when the charge was mentioned for the first time in the accounts; and in 1666 the number was increased to six. The instrument fell into disuse during the first half of the 18th"
"models made. Players used two sticks instead of the original single stick to hit on the membrane. This was predominantly used in military-life. Tabor use decreased by the mid-17th century. The tabor did continue to evolve throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. The tabor style is still used as the tambourin de Provence. Tabor (instrument) Tabor or tabret () refers to a portable snare drum played with one hand. The word ""tabor"" is simply an English variant of a Latin-derived word meaning ""drum""—cf. , It has been used in the military as a marching instrument, and has been"
"Roland, and it was probably a general term for horns and trumpets rather than referring to a specific instrument. Early trumpets were slightly curved, but the term was applied c1300 to straight trumpets imported from the Middle East during the Crusades. The modern German word for trombone, Posaune, is a corruption of ""buisine"" by way of ""busaun"". Buisine The buisine (Old French; also, ""busine"", ""buysine"", ""buzine"") was a type of straight medieval trumpet usually made of metal, also called a herald's trumpet. It had a very long and slender body, usually one to two metres in length (some were reported"
"places down to the French Revolution. The jetons were strictly speaking counters, i.e., they were thin pieces of metal, mostly latten, a sort of brass, stamped on both sides with some device and originally used in conjunction with a ""comptoir"" (i.e., an abacus or counting board) to perform arithmetical computations. The name comes from ""jeter"", through the form ""jectoir"", because they were ""thrown down"" upon this board. It soon became the fashion for every personage of distinction, especially those who had anything to do with finance, to have special jetons bearing his own device, and upon some of these considerable"
"Buccin The buccin is a visually distinctive trombone popularized in military bands in France between 1810 and 1845 which subsequently faded into obscurity. It should not be confused with another instrument of the same name, revived in France in 1791 and modeled after the ancient Roman buccina which could deliver only four distinct notes. In the ""New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians"", Arnold devotes but two sentences to this type of buccin: ""A form of trombone with a bell terminating in a stylized serpent’s or dragon’s head, often with a metal tongue, free to flap, protruding. Berlioz scored for"
"Trigonon A trigonon (trígōnon, from Greek ""τρίγωνον"", ""triangle"") is a small triangular harp occasionally used by the ancient Greeks and probably derived from Assyria or Egypt. The trigonon is thought to be either a variety of the sambuca or identical with it. A trigonon is represented on one of the Athenian red-figured vases from Cameiros in the island of Rhodes, dating from the 5th century BCE, which are preserved in the British Museum. The triangle is here an irregular one, consisting of a narrow base to which one end of the string was fixed, while the second side, forming a"
"fine stationery. Its most famous in-house paper was known as the ""empress paper"" (""papier impératrice""), in an elegant shade of pearly grey between white and azure paper. Maquet also manufactured travel diaries and notebooks. The French author Prosper Mérimée notably wrote the short novel ""La Chambre Bleue"" in 1866, dedicated to Empress Eugénie, on a Maquet notebook bound with dark green Morocco leather, discreetly hand-tooled in gold leaf. At Maquet’s, one could find all manners of writing accessories, from inkpots to blotting paper, including notepads, pencils, dip pens, and even paper knives and letter openers made of chiselled silver. While"
"and trumpet. The drum, almost without exception, is of the field drum type. Since musical notation is a comparatively recent invention, it is not found in early heraldry, though it does appear in 20th century heraldry. Japanese mon are sometimes used as heraldic charges. They are blazoned in traditional heraldic style rather than in the Japanese style. Charge (heraldry) In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an ""escutcheon"" (shield). This may be a geometric design (sometimes called an ""ordinary"") or a symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant, object or other device. In French"
"ideas for his Heckelphone, a wide-bore type of baritone oboe in C sounding one (not two, like the basse de cromorne) octaves lower than the oboe, that has been called for by a variety of 20th-century composers including Strauss, Copland, and Hindemith. This instrument is still manufactured by Heckel in Germany. Jean-François Dandrieu – Basse de Cromorne from Organ Suite in D Cromorne Cromorne is a French woodwind reed instrument of uncertain identity, used in the early Baroque period in French court music. The name is sometimes confused with the similar-sounding name crumhorn, a musical woodwind instrument probably of different"
"narrow and elegant chest of drawers, frequently with a mirror attached on top. It is also one half of the American portmanteau piece of furniture called a chifforobe. Chiffonier A chiffonier may be used to describe at least two types of furniture. Its name comes directly from a French piece of furniture, the chiffoniere. The French name, which comes from the French for a rag-picker, suggests that it was originally intended as a receptacle for odds and ends which had no place elsewhere. In British usage, a chiffonier is similar to a sideboard, but differentiated by its smaller size and"
"Pantalon The pantalon (or pantaleon) was a large variation on the hammered dulcimer, invented by Pantaleon Hebenstreit in the early 18th century and briefly popular in France and Germany. The pantalon was a very large dulcimer with a double sounding board, approximately 6 ft (2 m) long, with about 200 strings of both gut and metal, some double- or triple-strung. It had no dampers, so the strings vibrated sympathetically, giving a rich resonating tone that was quite novel at the time and made a noticeable stir; the lack of dampers however made articulation difficult. Few instruments were constructed and very"
"toys may be called ""trompo"" or ""peonza"", ""perinola"", and ""pirinola"". In the Philippines, they are called ""trumpo"" or ""turumpo"", while in Portugal they're called ""pião"". In Japan, similar tops are known as ""koma"", with most cities having a particular design. In Germany a ""Peitschenkreisel"" may also be called ""Doppisch, Dildop, Pindopp, Dilledopp, Triesel or Tanzknopf"" (roughly ""dancing top"") In Morocco it's called ""Trombia"" and it's often made out of wood and painted in a reddish brown color. Trompos have an approximately pear-shaped body and are usually made of a hard wood such as hawthorn, oak or beech although new resins"
"so the name means ""large trumpet"". The trombone has a predominantly cylindrical bore like its valved counterpart the baritone and in contrast to its conical valved counterparts, the cornet, the euphonium, and the French horn. The most frequently encountered trombones are the tenor trombone and bass trombone. The most common variant, the tenor, is a non-transposing instrument pitched in B, an octave below the B trumpet and an octave above the pedal B tuba. The once common E alto trombone became less widely used as improvements in technique extended the upper range of the tenor, but it is now enjoying"
"apple, Desmerknopf, musk ball Desmerapfel, Oldanokapsel, Pisambüchse, and smelling apple. Pomander A pomander, from French ""pomme d'ambre"", i.e., apple of amber, is a ball made for perfumes, such as ambergris (whence the name), musk, or civet. The pomander was worn or carried in a vase, also known by the same name, as a protection against infection in times of pestilence or merely as a useful article to modify bad smells. The globular cases which contained the pomanders were hung from a neck-chain or belt, or attached to the girdle, and were usually perforated in a variety of openwork techniques, and"
"""vulgar"" and glissandos of ""questionable taste"". It should be also be apparent that the French trombones of the period could not play the fifth partial D in tune in the closed slide position (1st) so 4th position is used more frequently. There are just three pages of an appendix to cover the bass trombone. He also composed a piece for brass quintet with drums, entitled ""Suite Brève"". The Suite Brève is available on indésens Records (France) on physical CD (2008) as well as downloading on In the 1920s and 1930s he recorded in orchestras with Stravinsky. It has been suggested"
"""pommes"" is now more common. The term for a red roundel, ""torteau"", is typically pluralised in the French manner as ""torteaux"" rather than ""torteaus"", although ""torteaus"" is occasionally seen. A ""pellet"" may also be called an ""ogress"". In modern French blazonry, a roundel of either metal (""or"" or ""argent"") is a ""besant"", and a roundel of any colour (dark tincture) is a ""torteau"", with the tincture specified. However, an alternate naming system has been used for the non-mental tinctures, with similar terms as English heraldry (""guse"" for ""gules"", ""heurte"" for ""azure"", ""ogoesse"" for ""sable"", ""somme"", ""volet"" or ""pomme"" for ""vert"","
"Trombone The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. As on all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones have a telescoping slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to change the pitch. Many modern trombone models also use a valve attachment to lower the pitch of the instrument. Variants such as the valve trombone and superbone have three valves similar to those on the trumpet. The word ""trombone"" derives from Italian ""tromba"" (trumpet) and ""-one"" (a suffix meaning ""large""),"