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Scan 23
FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY, 1909
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 17. See the scan on archive.org.
1position for the violin, and of violin playing, for the first school was the old Italian school, and from Italy, by means of her celebrated violinists, who travelled and spread throughout Europe, the other schools were established.
3Violin playing grew in favour in Italy, France, Germany, and England at about the same time, but in England it was many years before the violinist held a position of any dignity. The fiddle, as it was called, was regarded by the gentry with profound contempt. Butler, in "Hudibras," refers to one Jackson, who lost a leg in the service of the Roundheads, and became a professional "fiddler:"
5"A squeaking engine he apply'd
6Unto his neck, on northeast side,
7Just where the hangman does dispose,
8To special friends, the knot or noose;
9For 'tis great grace, when statesmen
10 straight
11Dispatch a friend, let others wait.
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