The British Musical Biography

[E] Austin, John, author, born at Craigton,
near Glasgow, April 17. 1752. He was a manu-
facturer in Glasgow, where he died about 1830.
He published " A System of Stenographic
Music." London, n.d. [1820], in which the
proposal is made to substitute one line and
six characters for the ordinary five lines and
symbols of the existing musical notation.
There is a short notice of Austin, with por-
trait, in Kay's " Original Portraits," vol. 2.
p. 376. Edinburgh, 1838.

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