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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1With Rebeck and Viol
3instruments, fourteen of them being bow instruments of the violin form. These instruments, of course, had grown into being from the revanas-tron, and were of varying degrees of finish and tone.
5The two best known to musical historians are the rebab and the kemengeh. Both of these instruments were played with one end supported by a slender rest upon the ground, both were played with a bow, and both started with one string only. The rebab is the more perfect of the two, having a larger or more resonant body, a shorter neck, and a shape better adapted generally to the best tonal effect.
7The Moorish invasion of Spain brought all manner of new elements into the Occidental world. Although we are told by certain authorities that the Moors had no lasting influence upon Spanish music, it is impossible to believe that the occupation of the Orientals did not carry with it some very definite traces of the art which was the very breath of life to the people of the East.
9Now when the rebeck came into Spain it passed by Italy—some day to be the cradle as the coronation-throne of the Heart of Music. It had already led a truly precarious existence in Southern France and the Basque country for many
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