executed by a voice or a Hute, or by any 
other wirkUinftrument. Stringed inftru- 
ments are capable of producing harmony, 
becaufe two or more notes may be (truck .at 
the fame inftant. 
It is not uncommon, when young gen- 
tlemen or young ladies who have learnt to 
play a little, are (landing behind a perform- 
er, to hear them fay >- " O, that piece is in 
ajharp, or in a flat key " judging from 
there be'mgjlats, orftarfis, marked at the be- 
ginning of the movement. Now, it is an 
equal chance that they are wrong: it de- 
pends on circumstances, of which they are 
totally ignorant; but which are known by 
a mufician the moment he hears the firft 
(hord (truck by the inftruments. I (hall ex- 
plain this hereafter. 
But nothing is more ridiculous than to 
hear the audience at a Concert vociferate 
their applaufe, in a foreign language, of 
which they do not understand a word. Whe- 
ther the finger be male or female; whether 
it be one performer, two performers, or a 
chorus, they mean to applaud, the cry is al^ 
ways bravo! What muft an Italian female 
think of an Englifti audience, who thus 
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