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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1X. — Further Adventures of the Viol
3THE interest which the violin student, even the violin lover, must feel in the viol above all other embryotic fiddle forms can hardly be overestimated. The reader will readily appreciate this fact if he be first taught to differentiate between such primitive instruments as the rebeck, rebab, vielle, hurdy-gurdy, trumpet marine, "troubadour's fiddle," and others (to which the name "viol" is far too indiscriminately applied by fictionists and historians alike) and the genuine viol. This instrument is only one step behind the violin, and indeed the exact point of division is a debatable line, never to be quite settled, probably, by the authorities on the subject. So close is the relationship that any layman might be pardoned for seeing in an advanced viol and early violin the likeness of sisters rather than that of mother and daughter.
5The very dubiousness of this period of violin history, the very delicacy of touch and discrimination of selection that are required, make it peculiarly fascinating. The exact points that render two instruments respectively a viol and a
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