Scan 73
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
20 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Dream Music
3children of the East between the exalted dreaminess of such stanzas as we may be privileged to read or hear.
5One of the most characteristic Hindoo poems is the following:
7"He who gives alms
8Goes to the highest place—
9He goes to the Gods . . .
10Where there is light eternal
11In the world where the sun is placed! —
12In that immortal, imperishable world,
13Place me, O Soma! —
14Where there is happiness and delight,
15Where joy and pleasure reside,
16Where the desires of our heart are attained:
17— There make me immortal."
19To the Asiatics we must acknowledge an incomparably deep debt of gratitude. They were the first people to invent and make use of a bow on strings. Almost five thousand years ago Rav-anon, King of Ceylon, made the first bow instrument, called the ravanastron, —called also, as has already been said, revanastron. It was a cylinder of sycamore wood hollowed out from one end to the other and strung with fibres of wild beasts. The first bows were merely bamboo canes made rough by tiny cuts in the wood and drawn across the string with a very crude twanging effect. Finally hair and resin were added to the cane and
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