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I muft acknowledge alfo, that at lafr. he really puzzled me, 

 for he concluded by a tranfpofition into the key of F fharp, which 

 is never ufed by Englifh compofers, and which I was not able to 

 name on his word of command, not having attended to the laft 

 note of his bafe. 



I need fcarely fay, that I left the room after this in great 

 aftonifhment ; and it then occurred, that it might be right to 

 make an experiment, whether he would be equally ready to tranf- 

 pofe in the minor third, in which probably the child had never 

 heard any composition whatfoever, it being fo feldom ufed in the 

 prefent times 



I then communicated what I had been witnefs of to Mafter 

 Wefley, defiring that he would write down a fimple melody of a 

 few bars in the minor third ; which he imediately complied with, 

 and went with me to little Crotch, in order to aflift in the ex- 

 periment. 



I was in great hopes that the child would catch this little air, 

 after Mafter Wefley had repeated it five or fix times ; but in this 

 I was difappointed ; for little Crotch happened not to be in 

 humour, . though we endeavoured much to coax him to the or- 

 gan. Having obferved however that he would fometimes play 

 from' pique, when intreaties had no effe£t, I defi red Mafter Wefley 

 to give the treble only, and told Crotch that he could not add the 

 bafe to it. On this the urchin fat down by Master Wefley, ac- 

 companying with the proper bafe this fame tune, tranfpofed in 

 the minor third through the whole o£lave. 



* This probably arifes from the greater brilliancy occanoned by the 

 open notes on the violin, which occur more frequently in the major 

 than minor third. 



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