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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 viola d'amore were played with much technical skill and expression. The Viola d'Amore (Fig. 10) is a tenor viol with sympathetic strings. It usually had seven gut-strings. The sympathetic strings of fine steel pass through small holes drilled in the lower part of the bridge; the number varies from seven to fourteen; they were tuned in unison with the gut-string. The Rev. H. R. Haweis, in his delightful book, "Music and Morals," in his chapter on the predecessors of the violin, says that a player on the viola d'amore, when he drew the bow across the gut strings, must have "produced a kind of mixture, as when a piano is played without dampers or with a loud pedal down. Some sensuous effects unknown to us were doubtless produced in this way; but everything which tends to promote an unregulated echo is destructive of music proper just as much as a sound board which keeps echoing a speaker's voice is to that extent destructive of speech

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