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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3chapel exercises, after musical Luther and the Reformation had arrived, and they stood also for a certain access of cultivation and taste. Stringed music began to be something of an art, instead of a trick and trade in one, and a little of the sober application of the Egyptians returned, accompanied by a slight rise in the standing of the musician. This last innovation was a more gradual matter, however. To be sure, the players of viols and other instruments were no longer classed as outlaws and animals, but they still held no social or civil position, and while not actually disenfranchised by law, were practically outlawed by prejudice.
5But their instruments grew swiftly in beauty and perfection after the fifteenth century. All over the world the makers of lutes and viols were kept busy improving their handiwork, choosing finer woods and inventing more sensitive models, experimenting with strings, trying new positions for sound-holes and bridges, and strings, and striving, though more clumsily and slowly, to improve the bow.
7All over Saxony in particular clever vendors of instruments were making discoveries almost daily, — sometimes by accident, sometimes by conjecture, sometimes, only more rarely, by calcu-
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