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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:, 1864
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1stations in order to disperse themselves in various directions, crossing the great rivers, such as the Danube, the Elbe, the Rhine, the Saône, and the Meuse; in short, peopleing, by one of their branches, the whole of Gaul, under the name of Celts, and sub-dividing themselves into an infinity of tribes continually at war with one another. This, however, is not the place to point out the traces more or less authentic—more or less certain of these relationships: some learned men of the greatest eminence have acquitted themselves of this task, in modern times, in a manner altogether special. Linguistic science, too, has thrown a light on these questions, and triumphed over the most obstinate incredulity. Music, the universal expression of the affections of the soul, can also furnish its auxiliary proofs, as I shall show elsewhere. But, in connection with the present subject, we have only to trace the analogies between the bow-instruments of the West and the primitive type which we have seen in India, and then to verify the transformations and the progress of them.
3A question here presents itself: is the crouth (the two forms of which we shall presently show) an instrument invented by the Britons, as certain English and Welsh antiquaries pretend, especially the bard Edward Jones; or is it simply an improvement of a previous rude model? At the first view, this problem appears to be resolved by the expression of Venantius Fortunatus, chrotta Britanna (the British crouth); but, independently of Britons and Gaels existing in France, as well as in England, there is substantial ground for rejecting the immediate invention of such an instrument as the crouth, even in its simplest form; because the
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