Every letter has its own peculiar air, which air is very much hurt if the tune is not rightly pitched for instance, if a tune is set on A natural, and in pitching the tune, you set it a tone too low, you transpose the key into G, which is perhaps quite different from the intention of the author, and oftentimes very destructive to the harmony.
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