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In the airs that I have felected, I have 

 changed the keys of fome of them, and 

 altered their baflfes, that they might be 

 the better adapted to the harpfichord. 

 Moft of the harpers that I have met 

 with in \Vales, play in the major keys 

 of G and D, which are by no means 

 fuited to plaintive fubje6ls. Six of the 

 airs are taken from Mr. Jones's excellent 

 colle6lion; the reft I wrote from the harp, 

 when I was in that country. Some of 

 them differ very materially from thofe 

 inferted by that gentleman, but as the 

 general caft of their melody appeared 

 to me much more pleafing than thofe, I 

 ftill thought it proper to retain them. 



I cannot conclude this account more 

 appropriately, than by inferting Mr, 

 "Jones's defcription of the mufic of his 

 own country. " There is a certain 

 flyle of melody peculiar to each mufical 

 country/' fays this gentleman, " which 

 the people of that country are apt to 

 prefer, to every other ftyle. Some of 



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