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A third proof of the greater connexion between mufical founds 

 and any ideas obtained by the communication of words may be 

 perhaps evidenced by repeating a tune and ftory of the fame 

 length to a child who can both fing and read, when I am con- 

 fident that a note either omitted or mif-arranged would be more 

 noticed, than the either dropping or mifplacing a word in the fhort 

 narrative. 



Strong however and early as the love of mufic is in many 

 children, yet it muftbe admitted that this moft capital pleafufe falls 

 not to the lot of the greater part of mankind, even in any ftage 

 of their life. 



This may be occalioned in many by a defect, in their organs of 

 hearing ; but may be in others attributed to the difcouragemeiit 

 of parents when the child firft attempts to be a mufician, and 

 particularly if a boy. I mould conceive however that this 

 ftrong prejudice againft muficians arifes from obferving, that 

 itinerant fidlers are commonly of abandoned, morals, whence it is 

 fuppofed, that thofe who are ftationary, and have had a regular 

 education, deferve perhaps no better a character. This prejudice 

 in many hath taken fo deep a root, that the contempt is trans- 

 ferred from the profefl'ors to the fcience itfelf, whilft they do not 

 recollect that it is honoured with degrees in both our univeriities, 

 that it conftitutes a part of our cathedral fervice u , and that it 



11 If it was not for this eftablifhment of choirs in moft parts of Eng- 

 land, a concert could fcarcely be performed any where but in the me- 

 tropolis. I might add perhaps, that mufic would be almoft annihilated 

 in the country, for the harpfichords there are moftly tuned by the 

 organift or fingers of the cathedral. Even with this afliftance moft of 

 thefe inftruments are commonly out of order, from the expence, if the 

 city is at any diftance ; it is therefore to be wtfhed, that the tuners 

 would attend regularly, at particular towns, upon certain days, from 

 whence the inftruments of the neighbourhood might be put in order 

 at no ruinous a price. 



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