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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1age either. Even the crwth had forgotten its wild ways, and now, most utterly meek, sober, and unpretending, awaited its turn in the dance of strings.
3There is yet another stringed instrument of mediæval days which we must consider as a possible evangel of the violin, if not an actual ancestor. This is the curious and unique instrument known as the tromba marina, marine trumpet, trumscheidt, tympanischiza, and nonnen-geige (nuns' violin). It came from Germany originally, where it was immensely popular, especially among the nuns of various convents, notably those of Marienstern, near Camenz, and Marienthal, near Ostritz. Both of them were situated in Saxony, proverbial for its music-loving folk. The nuns of these cloisters still use the marine trumpet, making it a striking feature in the initiation ceremonies of each novice who comes to take the veil. They usually play them in quartet form, as the greater number of the instruments have but one string; one plays the melody, the other three tones forming the harmonies. Some of the old marine trumpets had several strings, and very good bridges. More than one authority insists that it was one of the earliest of all bow instruments; it certainly fathered the geige, or
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