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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:, 1864
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1HISTORICAL RESEARCHES
2ON THE ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF
3BOW-INSTRUMENTS.
5What is the origin of bow-instruments? This archæological problem has engaged the attention of many learned men, without their having arrived at a satisfactory solution. Certain obscure expressions, interpreted in an unnatural manner, have induced the belief that the Greeks and Romans possessed, among their instruments of music, something which resembled the viol. Some have fancied they recognized it in the magadis—the name of which is derived from magas (a bridge)—because nothing like a bridge appears in the lyres and cytharas.
7The magadis was mounted with twenty strings, or with twenty-one according to Athenæus, or twenty-two according to Pausanias. John Baptist Doni thought it might have borne some analogy with the viola di Bordone, otherwise called lirone, which was used in Italy in the sixteenth century, and the eleven or twelve strings of which served to produce arpeggios with the bow, or
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