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The heart of music : the story of the violin, 1906
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1With Rebeck and Viol
3German violin, and probably, together with the lute, inspired the first violin makers to the progress and consummation of their craft.
5So we see that in all parts of the European world the violin was growing to completion: in England and France they had the crwth, rebeck, and viol, as well as other more primitive instruments; in Spain the mandolin and guitar, later developed into the guitar fiddle beloved by the troubadours, and in Germany the marine trumpet and lute. It is a question which of these instruments progressed most rapidly, but the writer is inclined to believe that this distinction belongs to the British crwth, though it was in Provence that the big "troubadours' fiddle" was first used.
7Strangely enough it is in that curiously independent little instrument, the crwth, that we first find most of the distinguishing changes and developments in violin growth. The bow, to begin with, was applied to the crwth, as we have seen, before any other European instrument. Of characteristic and advanced fiddle appendages there remain the bridge, the sound post, the sound holes, the bass bar, the curved-in-waist, and the corner-blocks. Some of these were more or less established before the era of the crwth,
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