by several critics to that of musical glasses. A critic in the Quarterly Musical Magazine, probably Richard Mackenzie Bacon, wrote in 1823 that "When I hear such a singer as Miss Stephens or Mrs. Salmon, the power of ductility seems carried to its utmost. There are no roughnesses, no breaks--the metal is drawn out exactly, and if we could run it along between the finger and the thumb, or pass the nail over the surface, it would be as even, as smooth, and as polished to the touch as it is brilliant to the ear." This description rules out any possibility of vibrato. Henry Phillips wrote that when Thomas Lindsay Willman, the clarinettist, accompanied Mrs. Salmon, it was difficult at times to distinguish the voice from the instrument. But Mrs. Salmon was no musician, although perfectly drilled into everything the orchestra then required. She gave no character to anything she sang. Family Her daughter, also called Eliza, was born on 10 January 1807 in Liverpool and married Louis Hantute on 28 October 1826 in London. She was also a singer, as well as a composer and wrote seven songs, two of them on poems by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, in 1831, before dying in Paris on 23 october 1840. References Attribution 1787 births 1849 deaths English women singers People from Oxford 19th-century English musicians 19th-century British women musicians 19th-century English women