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NYM(G.756.017
23 Feb 1756:42 (185)
To be seen at the new-exchange, that elaborate and
celebrated piece of mechanism, called the microcosm, or, the
world in miniature. . . [1 paragraph] for it plays with
great exactness several fine pieces of music . . . [1
paragraph] 2. Are the nine muses playing in concert on
divers musical instruments, as the harp, hautboy, bass viol,
&c. . . [4 paragraphs] 7. And lastly, is shewn the whole
machine in motion, when upwards of twelve hundred wheels and
pinnions are in motion at once: And during the whole
performance it plays several fine pieces of musick on the
organ and other instruments, both single and in concert, in
a very elegant manner, &c. . .
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