66 HAZEL M. STANTON 



both tests. This leaves only 3 per cent varying beyond one letter step in 

 the talent profile classification scope of A, B, C+, C— , D, E. 



Therefore, in conclusion, on the basis of information available from the 

 repeated tests of musical capacities over a period of years for children and 

 adults, as well as other cogent data not presented in this limited time, the 

 Seashore measures of musical capacities are recommended as scientific tools 

 to be used in basic studies of musical inheritance in families. It would seem 

 most advantageous that studies of the inheritance of musical capacities 

 should in the future contain more and more of the factual data obtainable 

 through quantitative measurements supplemented and substantiated by the 

 qualitative data that have been thus far depended upon almost exclusively. 



