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Show Sir Arthur Sullivan's Error. Sir Arthur Sullivan was at ono tlmo greatly worried about what appeared to him to bo a had Inconsistency In "The 1-ost Chord." Sir John Itoblnson tolls tho story: "Tho words. are: 'I struck ono chord of music llko tho sound of a great amen.' Now amen Ih a word ot two sllbles so that thero must havo been two chords. Ho did not notice this, ho said, until after the song had been sung In public, nnd ho was terribly afraid ho would get laughed at for It. Strange to say, nobody no-body ever seemed to havo found It out." |