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Researches into the early history of the violin family, 1883
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1stan the European violin has actually been introduced, although it does not appear to have obtained much popular favour. The rajahs seem not to appreciate its really commendable qualities, to judge from the fact of their having ordered violins to be manufactured of silver instead of wood. Some specimens made of this precious metal have found their way to London. One of them, dating from the year 1781, was sent to the Special Exhibition of Ancient Musical Instruments, held in the South Kensington Museum in the
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7year 1872. Its body was entirely of silver, and it had been made at Cawnpore, in imitation of an Amati violin. Considering that it was a hundred years old, the reader may perhaps be inclined to conjecture that our violin has suggested some of the forms in the Hindu instruments played with a bow which remind us of our own instrument. There is, however, no satisfactory reason for this supposition; on the contrary, a closer examination rather leads to the surmise that also here the European nations may have taken a hint
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