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FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY, 1909
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1on the violin, or the corresponding string and bow instruments which were its ancestors, there is evidence.
3On the painted roof of Peterborough Cathedral, in England, which is said to have been built in the year 1194 A. D., there is a picture of a woman seated, and holding in her lap a sort of viol, with four strings and four sound-holes. This seems to indicate that in very early days ladies sometimes played on stringed instruments, if only for their own amusement.
5Among the accounts of King Henry VII., dated November 2, 1495, is the following item, "For a womane that singeth with a fiddle, 2 shillings."
7Anne of Cleves after her divorce comforted herself by playing on a viol with six strings. Queen Elizabeth, also, amused herself not only with the lute, the virginals, and her voice, but also with the violin.
9These, however, were amateurs, and the
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