As a piece of trivia, it may be of interest that one Francis Hopkinson, whose signature appears on the [[Declaration of Independence]], was a musician known for introducing new ways of tuning and quilling harpsichords. (He also wrote the first American secular song.) | As a piece of trivia, it may be of interest that one Francis Hopkinson, whose signature appears on the [[Declaration of Independence]], was a musician known for introducing new ways of tuning and quilling harpsichords. (He also wrote the first American secular song.) |