"Indians have excellent eyes and ears; and our band, if weak in numbers, was certainly strong in lungs; for such as had wind instruments spared neither contortions of the face, nor exertions of their organs of respiration to give volume to the music."
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Gregorio Mengarini
Gregorio Mengarini (21 July 1811 – 23 September 1886) was an Italian Jesuit missionary.
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