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The heart of music : the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3improvement or progression beyond the crude Chaldean instruments, should be chosen by so many wise persons as the recognised parent stem of the whole violin family. This theory is most clearly presented by the following table compiled by Mr. Payne:
5LATIN FIDES: A STRING
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7Diminutive
8Fidicula
10Southern Group (Low Latin)
11Fidiula or Fidiula (also Vitula, Vidula, Vidella, Figella, etc.)
13Northern Group (Old French)
14Fideille
16Mediaeval French Vielle (Viella)
17Anglo-Saxon Fithele
18Medieval English Fidel
19High German Fiedel
21Scottish Fithel
22Modern English Fiddle
23Low German Vedel
25Provençal Viola Viula
26Italian Viola
27French Viole
28English Viol
30Diminutive Violino Fr. Violon
32Augmentative Violone
33Diminutive Violoncello
35Probably the most ignoble, but at the same time the most conspicuous era of the fidicula, was the reign of Nero. To that marvellous
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