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Researches into the early history of the violin family, 1883
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1to find a musical system similar to that of the Arabs and Persians. In fact, the Arabs have carried their rebab to all the different districts of the world in which they have gained a footing. The rebab appears to have been adopted by the Negroes and Kafirs in several African countries which have never been subjected to Mohammedan invasion. I have in my collection of musical instruments a very rudely-made fiddle of the Zulu-Kafirs, which evidently has been con-
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5Fig. 18. Gusla: Servia.
7structed from the model of a rebab. It consists of an iron basin over which a skin is stretched, and which is mounted with three catgut strings. The bow is of the most primitive kind imaginable. This simple contrivance was sent by an English gentleman from Pietermaritzburg to the Manchester Exhibition, to be deposited with the ethnological curiosities. Two fiddles of the Hottentots, which are in the museum of the London Missionary Society, are four-stringed,
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