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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:, 1864
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1Fig. 3.
3In succeeding centuries, monuments afford us representations of instruments of both kinds; that is to say, either in the form of the crouth trithant, more or less modified; or in that which resembles the varieties of the lute. Instruments of this latter species have but two or three strings: if the painter or sculptor gives them four, it is by mistake; for there are many inaccuracies, both in the representations of instruments and the way in which their names are written. The rubèbe belongs to this kind, and was only mounted with two strings. Jerome of Moravia, a Dominican of the thirteenth century, informs us that it was a grave-toned instrument, and tuned as follows:*
5* In chap. xviii of the compilation of different Treatises on Music, the manuscript of which is in the Imperial Library, Paris (fonds de la Sorbonne, No. 1817, 4to.)
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