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But he did not suffer his composure to be put out by it: he drilled us in the positions and steps in a manner the most precise; and, when he had brought us far enough to dance a minuet, he played for us something easily intelligible in three-four time, on a/flute-douce/, and we moved to it as well as we could.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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