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least to have received its first refinement; and concerning this chapel I was favoured with all the satisfaction I could wish from the Cavalier Santarelli.
In the Pope's, or Sistine chapel, no or- gan, or instrument of any kind, is em- ployed in accompanying the voices, which consist of thirty-two; eight bases, eight tenors, eight counter-tenors, and eight sopranos, or trebles; these are all in or- dinary: there is likewise a number of supernumeraries ready to supply the places of those who are occasionally absent, so that the singers are never fewer than thirty-two, on common days, but on great festivals they are nearly doubled*.
The dress of the singers in ordinary, is a kind of purple uniform; their pay is not great, and at present musicians of superior merit, belonging to this establish-
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