Music types

Music Types. Moveable types used in producing cheap music in large quantities. The first good music types were those cut about twenty-five years since by Mr. Hughes. Mr. E. Cowper invented a mode by which music could be printed in two formes—one being the lines, printed first the other the notes, &c., printed on the lines. This plan did not work well, and the late Mr. Branston devised a method of striking the punches deeper into the plate, and then taking a stereotype plate from it in type metal. After the white parts were blocked out, the music was sufficiently inrelief to be capable of being printed at the common printing press. A very improved method of casting music type, is now adopted by the Patent Type Founding Company.