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The heart of music : the story of the violin, 1906
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1IX. — The Troubadour's Fiddle
3"The troubadour's fiddle" is rather a movable quantity. Some persons declare it is derived from the trumscheidt, others from the Spanish guitar (the bowlless rebeck), and others from the crwth; probably it owes its parentage to a blend of all three as well as sundry side-stocks of foreign, mayhap Oriental, blood. Without doubt the "troubadour's fiddle," whatever it was, was the direct predecessor of the violin. The troubadours created musical taste among the well-born and rich classes, and with the growth and spread of their art and its popularity, the demands of the public reached out even farther and higher toward a perfect instrument to be a fit medium and interpreter for the new and lovely craft. It seems clear, as has been stated here before, that the crwth leaped ahead more swiftly and surely than any other instrument in that day of changes, developments, and achievements.
5In the course of time the knights and lords of Southern Europe adopted the lyric art as their own and learned to play on the lute and rebeck
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