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Scan 53
Chats on violins, 1905
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1CHAT II.
3VIOLS AND EARLY VIOLINS.
5I THINK it must have been a desire to imitate the singing voice which suggested the innovations and experiments made on the violin's ancestors towards the middle of the fifteenth century.
7Musical instrument makers became suddenly eager to contrive something which would give a sweeter and more musical sound than that produced by any of the existing stringed instruments. The preliminary step was taken when the Hurdy-Gurdy became a bow instrument with the name of Vielle à Archet. Then came attempts to obtain greater resonance: the position of the sound-hole was altered, also the shape of the back and belly, and a more graceful outline attempted. As the result of this ingenuity and research, the world of music was pre-
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