Scan 16
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1921
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1ancestry of the instrument beloved by the whole world. She wishes to deny any claim to having done her task other than in the most superficial manner. The student will readily see the possibilities of research and information which the author passed resolutely by. Her effort was to make for herself a rude genealogy of the violin, —the briefest and simplest résumé of the history of stringed instruments leading up to the perfect fiddle. More than this she has made no attempt to accomplish. Into the hands of those as violin mad as herself she commends her work, with neither protestation, pretension, nor excuse.
3One's most impassioned study of the art of violin-making receives a jolt by reading this paragraph in "Knight's Dictionary":
5"Locusts are fiddlers. Their hind legs are the bars, and the projecting veins of their wing-covers the strings. On each side of the body is the first segment of the abdomen. Just above and a little behind the thighs is a deep cavity, closed by a thin piece of skin stretched tightly across it like a banjo cover. When a locust begins to play he bends the shank of one hind leg beneath the thigh, and then draws the leg briskly up and down several times against the projecting lateral edge and veins of the wing-cover."
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