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A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1891
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1himself, or to allow any one else to play in his hearing save those who could play well: 'playing a little' was his dread.
3The gentleman shut up his precious violin in its case and produced another, on which he showed me the possibility of varying the note through every shade of pitch by the position of the finger on the vibrating string. It is impossible to describe the delight I felt when I was able to feel out a chord of three notes.
5'I am violating your father's instructions perhaps,' said the gentleman, smiling; 'but every one must have a beginning. Nevertheless he has much on his side. It has been said, rather cynically, "The moment a man touches an instrument he ceases to be a musician."'
7I did not understand this then, but I understood it well afterwards.
9The gentleman left one of his less cher-
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