THE ART OF SINGING.
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If singers do not at once manifest mu- sical voice, and modulate it SD as to touch at once every note in the octave. they are told that they are incapacitated by nature from learning to sing, and are thus, without questioning the truth of this assertion, dis couraged from any further attempt. This idea is evidently founded in error, and fraught with much evil. There is no phy- sical difficulty to prevent any man from and no other organs, are used in singing as in speaking; and speaking also requires as great compass, variety, and infection of voice as any kind of singing. Hence, unless there is deafness, or some disease in the ear, any person may learn to sing ; or in other words, the possession of the vocal organs usually exercised in the art of speech, and the hearing organs, by which the common modulations and infections of