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The History Of The Violin, 1864
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1maker to be rotes, or viols of large size, and Potier's example is similar.
3Shaw, in "Dresses and Decorations," gives an example of the thirteenth century from Arundel MS. 157, which has three strings and two round sound-holes (Fig. 12); the bow is much like the modern violoncello bow, but is held under-handed.
5Another variety was called the rebec, sometimes the ribible, or rebelle, and rubbebe. It seems originally to have been of a trapezoid form, and afterwards oblong, with the angles cut, and had two or three strings. Roquefort says it was a sort of bastard violin, or "violin champêtre," and was a favourite among the rustic classes, but fell into disuse in the sixteenth century—probably in consequence of the introduction of the violin proper about this time. Laborde, in his "History," gives engravings of persons playing on the rebec, and on the violin, as he calls it, with three strings, of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; but the figures are evidently modernized, and little reliance can be placed
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