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Paper, 'Of musical instruments from the South Seas' by Joshua Steele

Reference number: L&P/6/76

Date: 21 February 1775

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Subject: Musicology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a musical instrument, which was brought by Captain Fourneaux from the Isle of Amsterdam in the South Seas to London in the year 1774, and given to the Royal Society. By Joshua Steele, Esquire, in a letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P.R.S'

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L&P/6/76
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21 February 1775
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Paper, 'Of musical instruments from the South Seas' by Joshua Steele, 21 February 1775, L&P/6/76, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_76/paper-of-musical-instruments-from-the-south-seas-by-joshua-steele, accessed on 17 June 2025

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