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THE AMERICAN HISTORY AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC, 1910
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1desirous of enrapturing her audience, she should display her talent in a situation where there is just enough 'light to make darkness visible.'" However, today there is not an orchestral instrument, unless it be the harp, in the playing of which more grace can be exhibited.
3The violin is the most wonderful instrument in the orchestra. Its versatility and its powers of expression are greatest and the performer has unlimited control over it. There are but four fixed notes on a violin, the fundamentals of the strings as they lie open, but tones and semitones can be produced infinitely. In fact, this quality makes the violin rank next to the human voice in flexibility and it outranks the voice in range. It can produce two notes at once and by a quick sweep of the bow over the strings a chord of several notes is possible, the tones sounding almost simultaneously. The violin and its music hardly bears description. It is an instrument that charms all people. Its voice sympathizes with wealth and dignity or with grief and affliction. The greatest virtuoso was Paganini, born during the last part of the Eighteenth Century. He played so wonderfully that the public could not believe that the charm lay entirely within human powers, but imaginative minds could see the devil as he guided the hand holding the bow. But is it not paying the devil too great a compliment to even hint that he could have any connection with the joy and the sadness, the quiet and the passion that the violinist can depict?
5VIOLIN HORN — Bowed and Cup Mouthpiece. Europe. This is of the usual violin form, but has many folds of slightly conical brass tubing concealed within the body. The upper end of the tube passes through the neck and issues at the back of the scroll where a mouthpiece of French horn or trumpet shape is inserted. The other end of the tube widens within the body into a flattened rectangular bell, which takes the place of the usual block at the bottom of the violin. When the violin is held vertically on the knee and played in violoncello fashion, the horn can be
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