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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:, 1864
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1The acute instrument of the same species was mounted with three strings, and received the name of gigue, in France, in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries; but, in the fifteenth century, this name seems to have been changed for the first time into that of rebec for all the instruments of the same family—great, medium, and small. The Germans call them by the name of Geige ohne Bunde (viols without bands, i. e. without sides), to distinguish them from other instruments of a more perfect kind.* The following figure shows the form:
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7The rubèbe, the gigue—in short, the four classes of the rebec kind which we have already found established from the fifteenth century, namely, treble, alto, tenor, and bass, were the popular instruments in the hands of the minstrels, and served in general for dancing and for street singers. Their form was invariably such as we have described. The bass of this species of instrument
9* See the book of Martin Agricola entitled Musica instrumentalis. Wittemberg, 1529), fols. lv and lvi. Gigue and Geige are evidently the same word in two different languages.
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