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De fidiculis bibliographia: being an attempt towards a bibliography of the violin and all other instruments played with a bow in ancient and modern times, 1890
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1top shelves of their publishers' store-rooms, Dr. Ruhlmann's work was still in manuscript, whilst in Italy Signor Regli's work of comparatively local interest was easily obtainable but seldom in request. To-day these volumes command enhanced prices, and when a work published prior to 1880 reaches the hands of a bookseller, if it ever gets into his catalogue, it must be ordered by telegraph by the would-be purchaser, and even then it is only the constant and favoured customer who can hope to obtain it.
3The cause of this renaissance of the violin is largely due to the interest taken in music in general and the violin in particular by your Royal Highness, and to the efforts of Lady Hallé. Since Lady Hallé has shown that women are not debarred from the highest positions in the violin world, the study of the instrument has gained new life; add to this the great influence that has been exercised by the Countess of Radnor upon the study of instrumental music by ladies, and to-day there is, I believe, hardly a family with any pretensions to culture, in Great Britain, one of whose daughters or one of whose sons does not "play the fiddle." Prior to 1880, though biographical articles in periodical publications relative to the great violinists, beginning with Paganini, were numerous, articles dealing historically or theoretically with the violin were few and far between. To-day general articles on the instrument are to be found in every yearly volume of almost every magazine of general information.
5I believe that I am also safe in saying that the whole tone of the trade in violins has become higher during
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