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Scan 52
John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 34. See the scan on archive.org.
1run over the strings as if some idea had struck him whilst stitching his leather.
3Chapter IV.
5THE VIOLIN AND EARLY VIOLIN MAKERS.
7The violin the most perfect musical instrument has been evolved out of the earlier and more simple stringed instruments. We often read of Tubal, as in the scriptures, as being the inventor of the harp and was the father of all such as handle the harp and the organ. David and the House of Israel played before the Lord "on all manner of instruments made of fir-wood, even on harps and on psalteries and on timbrels and on cornets and cymbals." The sackbut is also mentioned and the instrument of ten strings. As at the present day we find musical instruments having been used in great events and ceremonies. In the Psalms of David we have this touching lament—"Wherefore did'st thou flee away secretly and steal away from me, and did'st not tell me that I might have sent thee
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