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MILWAUKEE SHCOOL OF MUSIC.
[[LINE]]
JOHN C. FILLMORE, DIRECTOR.
Milwaukee, Wis., ^[[April 23d]] 189^[[4]].
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My dear Miss Fletcher;
   The slight change of intervals made by temperament does not affect In the least the harmonic relations of the tones.  Those relations are [[underlined]] natural [[/underlined]] & the natural intervals are the true ones, the tempered ones being merely the closest approximation one can make to these with our instruments.  We have nothing to reconsider on that score.  Our notation gives the harmonic relations as they really are; the piano gives them as nearly as the excessities of temperament will allow.  Four voices, or four stringed instruments in the hands of musicians with absolutely correct ears, might give them with perfect accuracy.  The notation would be just the same in all there cases & so would the harmonic relations of the tones.
  I don't see any use in working at the