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The choir of this church is immense; the bases are all placed on one side, the violins, hautbois, french-horns, and tenors on the others, and the voices half in one organ-loft, and half in another; but, on account of their distance from each other, the performers were not always exact in keeping time.
The day before my departure from Padua, I visited Signor Tromba, Tar- tini's scholar and successor. He was so obliging as to play several of his master's solos, particularly two which he had made just before his death, of which I begged a copy, regarding these last drops of his pen as sacred relics of so great and original a genius.
VENICE.
I had many enquiries to make, and had very sanguine expectations from this city, with regard to the music of past times as well as at present. The church of St. Marc has had a constant supply
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