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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 104. See the scan on archive.org.
1His wife afterwards told me that the hours he spent that evening made him very happy, and he talked to himself about my playing and at last passed peacefully away."
3Chapter X.
5THE COMING OF THE VIOLIN.
7In writing a sketch of our violin-maker it may be interesting to consider the late coming of the violin to this country. At a very early period we find in England that Kings, Bishops, and the nobility had attendants to amuse the royal courts and palaces, by singing or chanting, and by playing on wind or stringed instruments of various kinds. The pipe and flute, harp and viol were amongst the instruments used by these attendants who were called "Minstrels." Passing early days we find that Traillefer, the celebrated minstrel, came into this country with William of Normandy, and since those days a similar attendant can be traced in the higher courts of Kings and palaces for hundreds of years. John Absolon was minstrel
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