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which is the same in every particular,
even to buttons and buckles. They are
bachelors, and have lived so long, and in
so friendly a manner together, that it is
thought here, whenever one of them dies,
the other will not long survive him.
My introduction to these eminent per-
formers was easy and agreeable, having
been favoured with a letter to them
from Mr. Giardini, who had been so kind
as to save me the confusion of asking
them to play upon so short an acquain-
tance, by telling them, in his letter, how
much they would oblige me by such a
favour. The eldest plays the hautbois,
and the youngest the bassoon, which in-
strument continues the scale of the haut-
bois, and is its true base.
The compositions of these excellent
musicians generally consist of select and
detached passages, yet so elaborately fi-
nished, that, like select thoughts or
maxims in literature, each is not a frag-
ment, but a whole; these pieces are in a
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