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The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the present. Also, an account of the principal makers, English and foreign, with numerous illustrations, 1864
35 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 30. See the scan on archive.org.
1Thus translated by the able editor, Mr. Edwin Norris—
3 "Blow, minstrels, and tabours;
4 Three hundred harps and trumpets;
5 Dulcimer, fiddle, viol, and psaltery; one of two readings
6 Dulcimer, fiddle, viol, and psaltery; one of two readings
7 Shawms, lutes, and kettle drums;
8 Organs, also cymbals,
9 Recorders and symphony." one of two readings
10 Recorders and symphony." one of two readings
12The crwth was of early date in Scotland, as well as in England and Wales, and an instrument of this nature was among the ornaments on the outside of Melross Church, founded in 1136.
14Dauney, in his "Ancient Scottish Melodies," quotes from an old poem called the "Houlate," 1450, where are mentioned—
16 "The psaltry, the citholis, the soft atharift,
17 The croude and the monycordis, the gythornis gay;
18 The rote and the recordour, the ribus, the rift," &c.
20Edward Jones, in the "Relics of the Welsh Bards," gives a poetical description of the crwth, written in the fifteenth century by Gruffydd Davydd ab Howel, with a translation. It agrees very much with that given by Daines Barrington, to which we shall presently refer. It is said that Bishop Morgan, in his translation of the New Testament into Welsh, printed in 1567, translated "vials of wrath" by crythan, that is crwds or fiddles. Hawes, in his "Pastime of Pleasure," of nearly the same date, thus describes the attendants of Dame Music:—
22 "There sat dame Musyke, with all her mynstrasy;
23 As tabours, trumpettes, with pipes melodious, one of two readings
24 As tabours, trumpettes, with pipes melodious, one of two readings
25 Sakbuttes, organs, and the recorder swetely, one of two readings
26 Sakbuttes, organs, and the recorder swetely, one of two readings
27 Harpes, lutes, and crouddes right delycyous; one of two readings
28 Harpes, lutes, and crouddes right delycyous; one of two readings
29 Cymphans, clarycordes, eche in theyr degre, one of two readings
30 Cymphans, clarycordes, eche in theyr degre, one of two readings
31 Did sytte aboute theyr ladyes mageste." one of two readings
32 Did sytte aboute theyr ladyes mageste." one of two readings
34We find the word crowd used for fiddle by the dramatic writers of the seventeenth century. For instance, in
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