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BG.773.030
24 May 1773:23 (946)
Some of the old performers in our grand provincial concert,
who are somewhat dubious of being re-chosen for the year
ensuing, in their old state fiddling station, have for some
days past caused much amusement to several speculative
geniuses about town; an amazing difference being observed in
their deportments;--aided with the greatest assiduity in
scattering about several excrescences of liberty, with many
dark insinuations (when within a circle of what they esteem
Sons of Liberty ) against their first fiddler!!----But it
needs little penetration to know, should they be continued
in their favorite seats, that we should have our ears ding'd
to death with their old favorite tunes of Harrison's corant,
--Billy Turtle, Oho!! and ------Whispers!---Country dances,
that have been so repeated scraped over by those adepts in
political gingle! as to render both the performers and their
compositions absolutely disgustful to even the
lobster-sellers and fish-cryers belonging to this
metropolis.
It is therefore humbly requested, that those respectable
members, in whose power it is to remove such nuisances,
would be pleased to turn their eyes toward some new
performers; it being known to exceed the art of man to
induce those riveted veterans to alter their tunes. A
continuance of which intolerable discordance, may possibly
bring on some epidemical disorders of the most pernicious
nature to the subscribers in general. CATGUT.
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