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Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1CHAPTER VI
3VIOLINS IN GERMANY
5Of course, by this time, "every schoolboy," to use Macaulay's famous phrase, knows that most things—including, alas! violins—can be made in Germany faster and cheaper than anywhere else; and if we trust to German writers like Dr. Shebek, we might almost believe that viols, not to say the violin, originated in Germany.
7I am quite willing to leave the viol origin an open question. If, on the one hand, Albert Dürer and his father-in-law both made violins and dated back to 1500, Benvenuto Cellini tells us that long before 1500 his father made the finest Italian viols at Florence; and an ingenious writer has now unearthed a print by Maso Fineguerra, the father of engraving about 1460, in which Thalia is represented playing on a small violin pochette or kit—which, by the way, has rather upset the idea that the kit was a reduced violin, but seems to show, on the contrary, that the violin followed the kit instead of the kit following the violin, the kit being in reality a small violin. It is thus triumphantly argued by Mr. Fleming that even the predecessor of, and every suggestion of, the
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