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accompanied by a very fine organ, well played on by one of the priests; after that I went to the Franciscans' church, where one of the Friars likewise was or- ganist, but he played in a very superior manner, both as to taste and harmony: though I visited these churches for the sake of music, it was impossible to keep my eyes off the pictures and sculpture. But it was here that I began to find that these two objects of sight were not so re- mote from my chief purpose of writing a history of the pleasures of the ear, as I at first imagined; for I frequently, in the old masters, met with representations of musical instruments, either of their own times, or at least such as they imagined to be in use at that time when the action of the piece happened; thus I observed in a famous picture of the Marriage of Cana by P. Veronese, in the Sacristy of S. Giorgio Maggiore, a con- cert, with a variety of instruments, of all which I have made a memorandum: and
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