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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments in the South Kensington museum, preceded by an essay on the history of musical instruments, 1874
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1Appendix.
3(55.)
4VIOLIN. German. 16th century.
5A very old-fashioned shape of the instruments of the viol class.
7(56.)
8SULTANA (or Psalter, Cither-Viol.) Played with a bow, like the violin. Irish. Made by Thomas Perry, Dublin, 1767.
9Perry made larger instruments of this kind, mounted with pairs of wire strings, like the old English cittern.
10The idea of using the bow with instruments of the cither kind is old; it has been taken up again recently in Germany, as is exemplified by the streichzither, a modern instrument from Bavaria, previously described. (See p. 259.)
12(57.)
13NAIL-VIOLIN. The first instrument of this description was invented by a German musician, Johann Wilde, living in St. Petersburg about the year 1740.
15Fig. 142.—NAIL VIOLIN.
17One evening, after returning home from a concert, Wilde, in hanging his violin bow on a nail, accidentally produced a tone by
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