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A popular account of ancient musical instruments and their development, as illustrated by typical examples in the Galpin collection at Hatfield, Broad Oak, Essex, 1897
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1ANCIENT
2MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
4Introduction.
6There are few recreative studies more fascinating than the history and development of musical instruments. To trace the pedigree of a fine old violin, or to work out the stages in the evolution of the organ, or the pianoforte—the former from the Syrinx or Pan Pipes, and the latter from the Dulcimer and Psaltery—is a labour of delight to many persons whose daily duties are more or less of a mental strain, and whose brain requires a special kind of pacific antidote to neutralise the effects of the high pressure work of this go-ahead age. To me the study of old violins and the
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