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Scan 27
FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY, 1909
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 21. See the scan on archive.org.
1fiddler named Grabu, who is said to have been an "impudent pretender." Banister lost his place for saying, either to or in the hearing of the king, that English performers on the violin were superior to those of France.
3John Banister lived in times when fiddle playing was not highly esteemed, if we may judge by the following ordinance, made in 1658: "And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, commonly called Fiddlers, or minstrels, shall at any time after the said first day of July be taken playing, Fiddling, or making music in any inn, alehouse, or tavern or shall be proffering themselves, or desiring, or entreating any person or persons to hear them play . . . shall be adjudged . . . rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars."
5John Banister seems to have been a somewhat "sturdy beggar," though not exactly in the sense meant by the ordinance, for he
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