sightsman
English
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editsightsman (plural sightsmen)
- (dated, music) A sight-reader.
- 1842, The Musical World, volume 17, page 268:
- […] indeed the lessons are evidently the production of a man who either never knew, or has forgotten, the elementary steps and helps necessary to make the future sightsman.
References
edit- Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical.