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OCR: MUSIC Leonardo's biographer, Giorgio Vasari, said that Leonardo "devoted much WOODWIND effort to music He sang divinely, KEYS the lira. improvising In his own addition, accompa he was iniment the best on improvisor of rhymes of his time." n Leonardo's day, wind instruments could only be as long as the span of two human hands This limited the sound that could be produced to relatively high notes. Admoyt Leonardo designed set of keys attached by wires to pads that would close the holes of the instrument This system allowed the player to expand his reach and to play lower notes MUSI "The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but is in the body as [if] it were the airwhich causes the sound of the organ, where when pipe bursts the wind would cease to have any good effect ...