Although stopping may have served to produce some chromatic sounds, and partially filled up some of the smaller gaps in the natural harmonic series, the characteristic clearness of trumpet-tone was largely lost when the instrument was thus muted by having the passage through the bell closed by the hand.

The ears apprise the brain of sound.

I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail.

A new wine club called 600 Grapes asks us if we suffer from oenophobia -- a fear of wine.