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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1same production. But the fiddle is a much older instrument than the violin. A kind of fiddle was used in fairs and shows by the Anglo-Saxons as early as the tenth century. Some believe it to have originated in England or Wales; whilst the violin came to us from France and Italy many hundred years later, and did not attain its full degree of perfection till the seventeenth century. The fiddle of olden times, which was a very coarse kind of musical instrument, has come down to us modified in form, and now externally resembles the violin. It can be purchased at the price of a few shillings; but no violin worthy of the name can be had for less than five to ten pounds, and for a solo instrument twenty-five to fifty pounds is the least amount that will procure a good instrument. For a fine Cremona violin of one of the old masters (Amati, Stradivarius, Guarnerius), from one hundred to three hundred pounds is by no means an uncommon price. It need scarcely be added that it is the violin of the seven-
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