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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3the bow was made. There were several kinds of bows, and all had names, — garika, kona, parivadas, and others. Sometimes the ravanastron was strung with silk instead of animals' sinews; nearly all Asiatic instruments have silk strings to-day.
5The top of the instrument — the thin board stretched over the cavity and under the strings — was usually of satinwood of the very finest and softest fibre. In the corrupted forms of the revanastron, the rebab and kemangeh, played by the Arabs to-day, are much more crude. Naumann, as well as Heron-Allen and Fétis, consider the rebab "the precursor of all our stringed instruments," saying that the Crusaders probably brought it back with them to France and England.
7India had a magoudi, or guitar, also, and to-day possesses an exquisitely shaped but primitive violin called the serinda. There was also a sitar in Northern India, — a sort of guitar or lute.
9The mystery and mysticism of music is marvellously understood by the Orientals — above all by the Indian people. One writer speaks of "the soft sentimentality of the Hindoo"; but it goes deeper than that. The melancholy, sensuous tenderness of the Indian race, the brooding passion, the passive emotionalism, — these things
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