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Chats on violins, 1905
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1on the little impostor, and look upon it as a white elephant. Considered unworthy of a separate instruction book, professors of the Viol were content to include a few observations about it, at the end of their Viol Tutors; and in so doing, showed that the true root of their scanty remarks was a lack of knowledge. So absorbed were professors and pupils in the dear old Viols that they had no time to spare for the study of the more difficult violin, and thus the king of stringed instruments was compelled to patiently await the coming of a master hand to place it on its rightful throne.
3Description of the various Viols.
5According to Fetis, Viols were first made in Nuremburg at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and later in Italy.
7The Italian model first appeared from the hands of Joan Kerlino of Brescia, 1449, and was universally adopted.
9Viols were divided into two classes:
10Viola da Braccio: which were rested against the breast or on the knee.
11Viola da Gamba: bass instruments which were held between the knees like a 'cello.
12The Viola da Braccio were of three kinds:
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