Excerpt from Early Concert-Life in America (1731-1800) Where there was a chamber organ that one Phillips played upon, and some shop keepers and foremen [apparently forming a musical olubl] came weekly to sing in concert, and to hear and enjoy ale and tobacco, and after some time the company grew strong. 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.