require rapid execution, muft be begun with 
at a very early age, and the practice conti- 
nued with a degree of afliduity, juftifiable 
only in a profeffed Mufidan. But if you 
have a tolerable ear, are fond of harmony, 
and wifh to be able to take a (imple part in 
a private Concert, the Tenor-fiddle, the 
Violoncello, or the Baffoon, may be learnt 
in a fhort time, and retained by very mode- 
rate practice. If your ambition foar no 
higher than a Scotch ballad, the German 
flute is your inftrument. By ail means, 
avoid the Hautboy, out of companion for 
your neighbours; unlefs, at any time, you 
want to drive the rats and mice from your 
apartment. As to the Harpfichord I 
once fat playing upon that inftrument, in a 
room next the fquare where I then lived. 
As two gentlemen were paffing the window, 
I heard one of them exclaim, " I hate to 
fee a man at the Harpfichord ! " I had never 
before annexed the idea of effeminacy to 
that inftrument; but from that moment, I 
began to be of the gentleman's opinion. 
I think, the moft defirable mufical ac- 
complifhment, is, the art of fmging at fight; 
that is, the art of hitting, or founding the 
notes with your voice as with an inftru- 
ment. 
