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PG-P.763.030
11 Aug 1763:43 (1807)
Musick, and instruments, to be disposed of by a gentleman
from London, in manuscript and in print, viz, concerto's,
sonata's, solo's, duets, Italian and English songs in score,
and the prettiest of them transposed into easy keys, for the
flute, violin, or harpsichord, to accompany the voice; they
may be played lesson-ways, or with the thorough-bass, in the
nature of Venetian ballads in two parts; they are by Leo,
Pergolese, Hasse, Galuppi, Handel, &c. Mr. Gibbon and
Carosi's famous, easy and very pretty Trio's; Camini's,
Handel's, Gerard's, Seiss's and Dotzell's 12 Nocturnals;
Col. Reid's famous solo's; all the old and new Scot songs
and tunes, with variations by Messieurs Munro, Rutherford,
Oswald, Mr. Gibbon and Bremner; Polly, an Opera (and other
operas) by Mr. Gay, with the musick for the voice,
accompanied with the harpsichord, or any other instrument.
The merry Mountebank, viz, humorous songs with the musick
and accompaniments; Lampe's 60 famous songs, with the
thorough-bass, and vast large copper-plates to each song;
guittar and harpsichord musick; Pasquali's . . . [?] new Art
of fingering, likewise his rules for playing the thorough-
bass without a master; Cromi's fiddle new modelled, by way
of question and answer (with many copper-plates) or rules to
play it well without a master; new country dances, minuets,
Scots reels, marches, hornpipes, &c. in different books;
instructions for singing, and for all instruments singly,
also for transposing musick into proper key for your
instrument; pocket and large ruled books for the
harpsichord, &c. some of the pocket ones filled with songs,
solo's, duets, marches, jigs, minuets, &c. good German
flutes at three dollars apiece; others with two or three
middle-pieces to lower the pitch to accompany to voice or
any wind instrument; fiddles lined and corner-stopt, to
strengthen them and prevent their unglewing in hot or moist
weather, at all prices, from three dollars; a tenor violin;
a fine small six stringed girl's bass-viol; hautboys and
reeds; common flutes of all sizes, some exceeding good;
fifes of all sizes; fiddle (and bass-viol) bridges well
seasoned, at six shillings per dozen; breech-pins, pegs,
tail-pieces, fiddle bows (and Giardini's new invented ones)
of all lengths, qualities and construction, from 3 s. each,
and spare nuts; fiddle, bass-viol and tenor strings of all
sorts, sizes and prices, from 5 s. a bundle (viz. 30
strings) with a great many other things in the musical way.
N.B. He lodges at Mr. McAulay's, Stone-cutter, in Second-
street, near Union street.
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