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Scan 68
Chats on Violins, 1905
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 50. See the scan on archive.org.
1The finger-boards of the primitive Viols were marked off in chromatic intervals, which extended about two octaves.
3The tuning of the Viols was based on the contemporary vocal music. The methods of notation were two, termed "Lyra way (by letters) and Gamut way (by notes)."
5Jean Ott and Hans Frey of Nuremburg are the supposed first makers in Germany, and Joan Kerlino, 1449, the first Italian maker. Gasparo da Salo, Maggini, and all the celebrated fiddle-makers up to the middle of the eighteenth century, manufactured viols. In England Thomas Mace in "Musicks Monument," (1676,) quotes Aldred Jay and Bolles and Rosse, as being "the highest in esteem":
7"…. One bass of Bolles I have known valued at £100. These were old; but we have now very excellent good workmen who no doubt can work as well as these, if they be as well paid for their work as they were; yet we chiefly value old instruments before new; for by experience they are found to be far the best."
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