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Musical instruments, 1925
11 lines. Read by computer on 21 September 2026. Printed page 136. See the scan on archive.org.
1CHAPTER VI
2THE VIOLIN FAMILY
4"The instrument on which he played
5Was in Cremona's workshops made."
6—Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn.
8IN tracing the development of those sound-producing media which have made possible our modern orchestras, and rendered the art of music worthy of a place beside its sisters—poetry, acting, painting, sculpture and architecture—there is probably no one locality that has played so important a role in this evolution as Cremona in Northern Italy. This distinction was earned for that city by a long line of artistic inventors to whom we owe what is considered the most expressive of our musical instruments, the Violin.
10When we discuss the Violin, we naturally include its kindred—the Viola, Violoncello, and Double Bass—for this family has served as the foundation of the orchestra from the time of their introduction to the present day. Furthermore, the Violin was the first instrument of our modern orchestra to attain perfection, and in describing its characteristic fea-
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