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THE ingenious Berton, in his anti-Rossinian pamphlet entitled "De la Musique mécanique et de la Musique philosophique," relates how he once asked Maelzel, the metronomist, whether he could construct a machine to compose music; to which Maelzel replied that he could, but that the music so composed would be like that of Rossini, and not up to the mar