IROM FllANCIS FOWKE, ESQ. 2Q"j 



but Pear Cawn is a performer very little, if at all, in- 

 ferior to Jctwun Shah. The frets of Pear Cawn's 

 inftrument were tolerably exact. Any little difference 

 is eafily corrected by the preffureof the finger. Indeed, 

 the performers are fond, on any note that is at all long, 

 of preffing the firing very hard, and letting it return im- 

 mediately to its natural tenfion, which produces a found 

 fomething like the clofe fhake on the violin ; but not 

 with fo agreeable an effeft; for it appears fometimes 

 10 alter the found half a tone. 



The frets are nineteen in number. The notes that 

 they give will appear on the following fcale. I have 

 added below the names which the performer himfelf 

 gives to the notes in his own language. It is very ob- 

 fervable, that the femitones change their names on the 

 fame femitone as in the European fcale. 



ooooo ooo 



•-u T3 -a -o t3 'O'ts-S 

 -cj:.r:_C-2 A -O M 



« CO * 'flUJ !i 00 ffi 



E^iSS 



a 3 -o D- a- s co 



3- u- ^ EL E. 



|L ., 2 2 2 o,«22s° 2fi22 --- S 

 o « .5 .- :H o p.? .? ■- " •- •- ■-"■OH 



On the wires R and S, which are thofe principally 

 u fed, there is an extent of two octaves, a whole note with 

 all the half notes complete in the firft oclave, butthegfcf 

 and b b wanting in the fecond. The performer's apo- 



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