Picco, the Sardinian Minstrel - from a photograph by John Watkins, 1856. 'This young man, who has been astonishing world by his performances on an instrument of the humblest possible kind - a concert at the Hanover-square the effects which he produced by means of his poor little instrument were at once so marvellous and so beautiful that a large filled with wonder and son of a Piedmontese shepherd, blind from his birth, and destitute of any musical extraordinary attainments were discovered by accident. A sportsma
Picco, the Sardinian Minstrel - from a photograph by John Watkins, 1856. 'This young man, who has been astonishing world by his performances on an instrument of the humblest possible kind - a concert at the Hanover-square the effects which he produced by means of his poor little instrument were at once so marvellous and so beautiful that a large filled with wonder and son of a Piedmontese shepherd, blind from his birth, and destitute of any musical extraordinary attainments were discovered by accident. A sportsman, wandering among the Apennines, was struck by singular strain of music, and found that it proceeded from a country lad, playing on the rude instrument we have mentioned. [His father]...was persuaded to allow his son to be taken to Milan, with the view of making something by his talent'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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