I prepared two round sticks, about the bigness of common cudgels; they were thicker at one end than the other, and I covered the thicker ends with pieces of a mouse's skin, that by rapping on them I might neither damage the tops of the keys nor interrupt the sound.
Bi makila biribil prestatu nituen, borra arrunten tamainakoak gutxi gorabehera; mutur batean lodiagoak ziren bestean baino, eta muturrik sendoenak sagu-larruz estali nituen, haiekin jotzerakoan teklak ez kaltetzeko eta soinua ere ez hondatzeko.