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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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1violin family were not allowed to be played in low taverns; but there was no restrictions relating to the rebec, which was certainly the street musician's instrument of that period. The rebec was extinct in England earlier than in France. It is now only seen represented in sculpture, painting, and old manuscripts. The successor of the rebec was the kit (Fig. 5).
3The Crwth (Fig. 4), or ancient British fiddle, is something like the small Roman lyre, which was introduced by the Romans into ancient Britain. The lyre was slightly modified, played with the bow, and called a crwth. This instrument is first mentioned by Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers, A.D. 609, and pictures of a crwth with three strings are found in MSS. of the eleventh century. The crwth in its latest form was mounted with six strings, four stretched over the finger-board and played with the bow, and two lying at the side of the finger-board plucked with the thumb of the left hand. The sound-holes
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