Excerpt from Handbook of ConductingThe finest faculties of hearing differ in many respects. For example, there are musicians able to detect the slight est inaccuracy of any note in any interval from a given note, who, nevertheless in the absence of an instrument or tuning fork cannot name correctly a note when desired. Another who can do this, and to whom it is a matter of certainty '(the faculty being inborn), can hardly understand that it is not also the case with everyone else.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.