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Excerpt from Few Facts in the Life of Handel In order to check this evident propensity, his father banished from his house all musical instruments, and endeavoured to divert the boy's attention from music by every means in his power. Handel was then under seven years of age. He had never been sent, as most German children are, to any of the public schools, where the pupils learn music as a part of their regular education; so that he had no idea of musical notation, nor of the method of playing upon any instrument; though he may possibly have seen a harpsichord, and have touched the keys, and thus acquired a pleasure in listening to musical sounds. But however this may have been, the child seems to have exercised all his ingenuity in order to get at the keys of a spin-net; and he found means to have a small one conveyed into a room at the top of his father's house, upon which he constantly played as soon as the family had retired to rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.