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Scan 152
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
13 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1The Heart of Music
3amazes. If you cannot get on without my love, you will freeze to death this winter!"
5Rimbaut, by the by, was one of the first "fiddlers" of history. Although his instrument was far from being a violin, it was a very excellent viol and as dear to his heart as the Stradivarius instrument is to the master of to-day. When, in his journey through Lombardy, he encountered bleak hospitality at the hands of that notoriously miserly people and, says the story, was forced to sleep in stable and in huts with but half a roof, the driest corner was always reserved for his viol. He might catch cold with impunity, but the rain would forever kill the voice of his beloved instrument,—which was not only his companion, but his bread winner.
7It must have been after some such experience as this that he wrote his famous song beginning
9 "A man forges cold iron
10 Who thinks he can make a gain without a loss."
12The Marquis of Malespina laughed at Rimbaut, calling him a "fiddler," or "player of viols,"—a term of reproach in those days. But the tables were turned when the two men were present at a banquet given by Biatritz de Montferrat, with whom they were both in love. Rimbaut was sad and dreamy, but there appeared "two joglars
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