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\section{From the Count de Saluces, July 1, 1784}
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DATE:& July 1, 1784\\
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FROM:& The Count de Saluces (Turin)\\
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TO:& BF (Paris)\\
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Sir:
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The abbot Perno Pi\'{e}montois has succeeded in applying a keyboard to the armonica so as to be able to play airs like one does on the harpsichord; I hasten to inform your Excellence and to ask you to inform us if someone did not carry out a similar mechanism in Paris yet, in London or elsewhere, because the thing being new, it would be a true pleasure to describe it to you, with the intention that the inventor would very charmed to make your homage.
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I benefit from this same occasion to announce to you the decision taken by the academy to soon publish the first volume of his new reports, hoping that you would like to contribute to it something of your works, and while asking you to approve the insurances of the sentiments of my more sincere veneration for the superiority of your enlightenment, I have the honor to be with the most perfect respect Of your very humble Excellence, Sir, your very obedient servant and fellow-member,
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the Count De Saluces
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Monsieur
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L’abb\'{e} Perno Pi'{e}montois ayant r'{e}\"{u}ssi \'{a} appliquer un clavier \'{a} l’harmonique de mani\'{e}re \'{a} pouvoir jouer des airs comme l’on fait avec le clavecin, je m’empresse d’en faire part \'{a} v\^{o}tre Excellence et de vous prier de nous apprendre si on n’a pas encore ex\'{e}cut\'{e} un pareil m\'{e}chanisme \'{a} Paris, \'{a} Londres ou ailleurs, car la chose étant neuve, je me ferois un v\'{e}ritable plaisir de vous en faire passer la description et le dessein dont l’auteur seroit tr\`{e}s charm\'{e} de vous faire hommage.
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Je profite De cette m\^{e}me occasion pour vous annoncer la d\'{e}termination qu’a prise L’acad\'{e}mie de mettre bient\^{o}t sous presse le premier volume de ses nouveaux m\'{e}moires, esp\'{e}rant que vous voudr\'{e}s y contribuer par quelqu’un de vos ouvrages, et en vous priant d’agr\'{e}er les assurances des sentimens de ma plus sinc\`{e}re v\'{e}n\'{e}ration pour la sup\'{e}riorit\'{e} de vos lumi\`{e}res, j’ai l’honneur d’\^{e}tre avec le plus parfait respect De v\^{o}tre Excellence Monsieur V\^{o}tre tr\`{e}s humble et tr\`{e}s ob\'{e}\"'{i}ssant serviteur et confrere,
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le Comte De Saluces
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