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being holiday time, many were absent
who usually study and practise there to-
gether.
The jumbling them all together in
this manner may be convenient for the
house, and may teach the boys to at-
tend to their own parts with firmness,
whatever else may be going forward at
the same time; it may likewise give
them force, by obliging them to play
loud in order to hear themselves; but in
the midst of such jargon, and continued
dissonance, it is wholly impossible to
give any kind of polish or finishing to
their performance; hence the slovenly
coarseness so remarkable in their public
exhibitions; and the total want of taste,
neatness, and expression in all these young
musicians, till they have acquired them
elsewhere.
The beds, which are in the same room,
serve for seats to the harpsichords and
other instruments. Out of thirty or
forty boys who were practising, I could
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