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MILWAUKEE SHCOOL OF MUSIC.
[[LINE]]
JOHN C. FILLMORE, DIRECTOR.
Milwaukee, Wis., ^[[April 27]] 189^[[4]].
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My dear Miss Fletcher;

It makes no difference whatever in our notation of the songs whether the Indians sing them in perfectly correct harmonic intonation or only approximate it, whether that approximation varies on the side of temperament or on some other side.  Our notation is supposed to stand for [[underlined]] natural [[/underlined]] relations.  Those who sing from our notation, or play from it on an instrument like a violin, can play or sing true to pitch, if they have skill enough and their ears are good, otherwise they will vary from it more or less.  Pianos & organs are built to vary from it slightly, i.e., they are tempered.  The only important question in the aboriginal music is to find out what the singers [[underlined]] mean [[/underlined]] to sing & put that down in the notation universally employed for that meaning.  The physicists are "not in it", from Helenholf down.  With music [[underlined]] as such [[/underlined]], they have nothing to do, beyond the