Bert --

I think (and this is my personal opinion-- forget what the literary mavins say) that, judging by the way he wrote so many different "voices" in his plays and in his sonnets, that he had an excellent ear. I would be very surprised if someone with that good an ear for language would have a tin ear when it comes to music.

Besides, in one of his sonnets (I forget the number) he writes about standing at his mistress's side, watching her fingers as she played the ancestor of the pizno, and admiring her playing.