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Scan 26
A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1888
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 14. See the scan on archive.org.
1associated certain thoughts with its message: no doubt the continued association of ideas of recollected imagery would explain the rest.
3The wandering musicians that played in the court-yard on summer evenings upon hautboys and fiddles no doubt reached me with a strange message from afar, especially in the shrill high notes; and on Sunday, in the village church, the organist thundered out fugues and fantasias, but it was the final cadences only that touched me: somehow the organ seemed wanting in that supreme searching power of wind and wood.
5But one day, it was a summer evening, there came into the court-yard four zither-players from the South. I say zither-players, but their instruments were more like the old Italian lutes for size and the number of strings. They were regulated each at a certain interval, including only the notes of the middle octaves.
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