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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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1The Violin Family.
3This group will doubtless be the most interesting family to the majority of the readers of these articles. There is a strange fascination about the king of musical instruments. All persons who have studied the violin, and who love that wonderful contrivance, must feel an interest in tracing its gradual development. The violin has been evolved from the ancient monochord, and Fig. 1, the Rebab or Arabian one-stringed fiddle, is indeed a monochord played with the bow. The Tromba Marina, or Marine Trumpet, Fig. 2, is a direct descendant of the monochord. It will not be out of place here to describe briefly the first stringed instrument, said to have been invented by Pythagoras, 600 b.c. It consists of a long box of thin wood, with a bridge fixed at each end,
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