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the history of the violin, 1864
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1CHAPTER XIX.
3HE supporters of the theory of the eastern origin of the bow, may perhaps suggest that there is still some uncertainty in our history of its introduction; but we submit that we have given sufficient evidence to claim it for our country. In what way the violin, as known at the present time, was first perfected in England cannot now be authenticated; but the model and outline of the violins of the earliest English makers are different from the Cremona instruments. They partake more of the high swollen model of the earlier violins, made at Brescia and in the Tyrol, but more of the former pattern than the latter, particularly in the outline of the body and the volute or scroll of the head. We have before mentioned as the oldest makers, Joann Kerlin, 1449, of Brescia or Brittany, and Gaspard Duiffoprugcar, born in the Tyrol: neither of these names are Italian, and some may ask whether the violin-proper might have come from Brescia or the Tyrol, and passed through Germany to the Netherlands? The intercourse of the English people with the Low Countries being greater in the reign of Elizabeth than with the Italian nation, it may be suggested as the probable route by which we obtained the Continental instrument of this class, and may have somewhat modified ours accordingly. Indeed there were
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