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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
2 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 174. See the scan on archive.org.
1The above remarks are more especially applicable to English players of stringed instruments. The grievance I complain of affects them far more than their fellow-musicians in Italy, Germany, and France. Almost all our best violinists are men of the orchestra. Two centuries ago John Bannister told Charles II. that the English violinists were superior to those of France—it is a pity he did not compare them also to the foreign singers of his day—but however that may be, it is high time that there should exist a more equal distribution of salary between the opera singer and the members of the orchestra.
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