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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1OLD VIOLINS
2AND THEIR MAKERS.
4CHAPTER I.
6EARLY MAKERS AND BRESCIAN SCHOOL.
8The early history of the art of musical instrument making is lost in the obscurity of past ages. I do not, therefore, propose here to wander backwards into dim regions of speculation, but to start with the dawn of the sixteenth century, when the Italian Renaissance brought so much to light.
10Before dealing with the earliest Italian makers I may, however, be permitted a slight digression in the direction of a matter which has been for a long time a source of considerable interest to musical antiquarians. In 1856, M. Fetis, treating of the origin of bow instruments and the various conjectures advanced from time to time regarding their Greek or Roman use, states that these conjectures have no historic value; that no passage of ancient writers
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