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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3of Europe, the four strings stretched over the finger-board were used to sustain the melody, the two side-strings being plucked in staccato accompaniment to the music made by the bow. The bow was strung with a cord or string probably at first, for it was hardly before the thirteenth century that horsehair was used for stringing the bow.
5How, when, or why the bow was invented will always remain a mystery. It is strange that in all the misty labyrinth of musical history nothing is more elusive than this small detail in the development of the queen of instruments, the Heart of Music. Many persons deny that the evolution of the crwth had anything at all to do with the progress of the violin. These persons insist that the violin grew in Stats and that its ancestry was all Oriental, and that its phases of embryotic evolution ran through wandering minstrels straying into Southern Europe in the days of the First Crusade.
7In any case we must leave the crwth in Britain and travel across the blue water to see what is developing in connection with this last theory. Is it possible that already we hear the Heart of Music beat to a swifter, surer measure, knowing that the time grows short and shorter before its gracious fulfilment to itself?
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