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Thread #128220   Message #3061373
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
26-Dec-10 - 03:48 AM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Another 18th century reference to maritime work-singing--

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for October 1775 has this note,in an unsigned "Essay on Musical Time," pg. 465:

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Seamen at the windlafs, and on other occafions, fing, that they may all act together.
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