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                                                                    1868           
                                                                  see. p. 388

acheive [achieve] that point  - 
The Band consisted of about a doz. to 15 performers &
some of them next to professionals  -  The music was of a mixed Character  - the principal portion being first Class
overtures which to an unpractised Amateur were very difficult and what with the (Almost Solo - ) [?] running passages and shifts it was altogether a stiff job  -  I was rather nervous the first evening, particularly as one who was to play with me and turn over the leaves was too ill to attend being deserted I had to tackle my parts and go through the whole alone

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