Show sir arthur sullivan s error sir arthur sullivan was at one time greatly worried about what appeared to him to be a bad inconsistency in the lost chord sir john robinson tells the story the words are I 1 struck one chord of music like the sound of a great amen now amen Is a word of two syllables so that there must have been two chords he did not notice this he said until after the son had been sung in public and he was terribly afraid he would get laughed at for it strange to say no body ever seemed to have found it out |