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dragging and moaning on every note is
sentimental and expressive.
Few outbreaks of the affectations of pedantic
ignorance have been more ridiculous than the
persecution of Italian organ-grinders on the ground
that their music is painful to sensitive lovers of
music. It may be so to a calculating machine
who has no music in his own soul, and to whom
all sounds are noises, but to a really delicate
musical ear there is no form of vulgar music less
liable to offence. On a well-made barrel organ
every melody is played in tune; on a pianoforte
every melody is necessarily out of tune; the reason
of this difference being that in the well-constructed
barrel organ only one key is attempted, and every
note is correctly tuned to the just intervals
belonging to the scale of that particular key. This is
impossible on the piano, which professes to render
every key with only thirteen notes to the octave,
and therefore the skilful tuner makes the best of
it by “tempering,” i. e. dividing the error between
all the keys and rendering it too small to be
detected by vulgar ears, or those that are disgusted
with a correctly-tuned barrel organ.
It is not every street organ that is thus tuned,
but most of them are. It is only recently that I
have discovered this. There were and still are a
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