About William Billings

shelomit:

By request of @plinytheyounger​: 

1. He had only one good leg and one good eye, and apparently sang as loudly as five normal people put together, which, on the whole, is what I would expect
2. I can never find it when I wish to but in one of his books, I think Continental Harmony (1794), he has a footnote about how annoyed he is that people never read his footnotes
3. According to him, nine out of ten women prefer the minor mode