ed
with any piece beforehand to reproduce it, he invites any
one to strike a number of notes simultaneously with the
hand, or with both hands; and immediately, as we heard him
do yesterday, he repeats at length, and without the
slightest hesitation, the whole of the letters, with all
their inflections, representing the notes. Nor are his
wondrous powers confined to the piano, on which he can
produce imitations of various instruments, and play two
different tunes--one in common time, and a second in
triple--while he sings a third; but he can with the voice
produce, with the utmost accuracy, any note which his
audience may suggest. Yesterday afternoon, for instance, he
was asked to sing B flat, F sharp, and the upper A,--a very
difficult combination; and, beginning with the latter, he at
once satisfied his auditors of his success. One very funny
feat he executed, which, as much as any thing else, showed
what he could do. When at Aberdeen, as Dr. Howard explained,
Tom heard, in a large ante-room adjoining the hall where he
was, a teacher of dancing tuning his fiddle, the strings of
which apparently had been rather difficult to get tightened
up to proper tune. Tom had but to listen, and he retained
every sound which the dancing-master produced. Tom's
imitation on the piano--first of the striking of the
violin-strings with the fingers for some time, after the
manner of violinists, then seeing if they chorded well,
again touching up the strings, anon giving a little bit of a
polka, and once more adjusting the strings, and so on, all
exactly as he heard it--was as amusing as it was
astonishing. No one with an ear for music should miss the
opportunity of going to hear him ere he leaves."

From "The Edinburgh Scotsman:"--

"'BLIND TOM.'--Last night this negro boy, of whose
remarkable performances so much has been said and written of
late, made his first appearance here in the Operetta House.
There was a crowded audience, among whom were a number of
the musical _cognoscenti_ of Edinburgh, whose curiosity had
been excited by the reputation he had gained in America, as
well as by the favorable notices of the press in this
country, and the testimony of such men as Moscheles and
Halle.... It is only when he sits down to the instrument,