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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1remains to notice the great boon which Festing conferred upon his brother professors and their descendants. It is this which has given his memory lasting life in the annals of English music.
3We are indebted to Festing as the chief instrument in the formation of the Royal Society of Musicians, which he may be said to have founded in the year 1738. This society derived its origin from the following curious circumstances. Festing being one day seated at the window of the Orange Coffee House, then at the corner of the Strand and Haymarket, observed a very handsome young man who was playing on the violin with grief and tears in his eyes. The object before him was a musician, Festing for the boy's maintenance. With the help of other friends he raised a fund for the maintenance of the musicians and their families, and the society, which is the first of its kind, Handel was one of its first members and left it a legacy of £1,000. Festing and his supporters dream that the society, capable enough in 1738, would grow into a fund possessing £80,000 in 1874, a sum which, however high-sounding, is yet one of two readings
4We are indebted to Festing as the chief instrument in the formation of the Royal Society of Musicians, which he may be said to have founded in the year 1738. This society derived its origin from the following curious circumstances. Festing being one day seated at the window of the Orange Coffee House, then at the corner of the Strand and Haymarket, observed a very handsome young man who was playing on the violin with grief and tears in his eyes. The object before him was a musician, Festing for the boy's maintenance. With the help of other friends he raised a fund for the maintenance of the musicians and their families, and the society, which is the first of its kind, Handel was one of its first members and left it a legacy of £1,000. Festing and his supporters dream that the society, which is capable enough in 1738, would grow into a fund possessing £80,000 in 1874, a sum which, however high-sounding, is yet one of two readings
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