| DATE: | 1763, February 26 |
| FROM: | BF (Philadelphia) |
| TO: | Cadwallader Colden |
| PBF: | 10:205 |
Remarks in passing about inventing a 'new musical instrument':
Dear Sir:
...
While in England, after my chief Business was over, I amus'd myself, with contriving and bringing to a considerable Degree of Perfection, a new musical Instrument, which has afforded me and my Friends a great deal of Pleasure; but the Description of it would make this Letter, already too long, much longer....