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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



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Every person has his own fundamental and favorite key in which 

 he generally speaks, hut which he often transposes higher or lower in 

 sympathy to other voices, and when he is excited. In divine service 

 at church I have heard the minister begin in his natural key, and the 

 choir sing the response in a higher key ; when the minister, possessing 

 a musical ear, gradually rose to the tone of the choir. In one instance 

 the minister began the communion service in E flat, and the choir and 

 organ gave the response in F. The minister gradually raised his voice, 

 and by the fourth commandment met the tone of the choir, wherein he 

 continued to the end. 



