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of his being able to name the note touched d , at Dr. Barney's, who 

 hath a Piano Forte, with feveral keys both in the bafe and treble 

 beyond the fcale in the common inftruments of the fame fort e . 



Upon any of thefe very low or high notes being {truck, he dif- 

 tinguifhed them as readily as the intermediate notes of the infr.ru- 

 ment. Now it is well known that the harpfichord tuners do not 

 fo eafily manage thefe extremes, as their ears are not ufed to fuch 

 tones, and more particularly the loweft notes. 



A frill more convincing proof perhaps of the fame kind hath 

 been mentioned to me by mailer Wefley, who takes little Crotch 

 much under his protection. The child hath lately taught him- 

 felf to play on the violin, which he holds as a violincelio, and 

 touches only with two of his fingers'. Matter Wefley hath 

 iometimes milluned the inftrument on pnrpofe to excite his 

 anger, whieh he never fails to exprefs ; adding, at the fame 

 time, whether it mould be h'igher or lower He likewile 



compofition, he either knows what mull be the concluding note of the 

 *bafe; orotherwife he muft retain in his memory every fuccellive note of 

 the three bars, and from thence determine the key. In this experiment, 

 (which I have tried myfelf), I fuppofe the three bars not to enter into 

 extraneous modulation ; for if they were fuch, the boy would then name 

 the proper key, though not that of the principal compofition. 



d If a chord of four notes is ftruck, he names them all in fuc- 

 .ceflion. 



e Thefe notes are added to give fufficient room for two performers to 

 ■fit down to the fame inftrument, and execute duets. 



f Mafter Wefley heard, him when he had taken to the violin for about 

 a fortnight ; but I happened to be prefent a few days afterwards, when 

 he had found out the neceflity of ufing more fingers, as he improved in 

 Jiis execution. Crotch can alfo play on the common flute and JUccado 

 Pqftorello, and deals much in the rapid runs which are ufually intro- 

 duced by thofe who can amufe themfelves with that poor inftru- 

 ment. 



s He docs not fay /harper or flatter. 



judges 



