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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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1history of the great masters of Brescia and Cremona has been the greatest relief in my hours of relaxation. Rest is not idleness, and music—the most ennobling of all the arts—although its study entails earnest application, yet the overwrought brain can turn to it and find rest from its soothing influence. I have mentioned the violin as having engrossed nearly all my spare time for some years, but although this instrument must always take precedence in point of interest, especially to those persons who wield the bow, there are many other instruments now in use whose ancestry affords much instruction and amusement to all who carefully study their history. There is, however, more than one obstacle which crosses the path of the would-be student of early musical instruments. The first is the very high price of the books dealing with the subject: and secondly, the proper classification of the instruments in families in a single work. Wind instruments are treated by
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