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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
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1Lydgate is given, where the following instruments are named,—
3"Harpys, fythels, and eke rotys,
4Wel accordyng with her notys,
5Lutys, rubibis, and geterns,
6More for estatys than taverns:
7Orguys, cytolys, monacordys."
9Here we have the word fythel introduced. Gower says,—
11"He taught her, till she was certene
12Of harpe, citole, and of riote,
13With many a tewne, and many a note."
15And Chaucer's "frere,"—
17"_________ Certainly he had a merry note,
18Wel coude he singe and plain on a rote."
20Very long before the time of these latter examples the rote had received various modifications and improvements in form, and the bow had been introduced. M. de Coussemaker has given the figure of a rote or crwth of the eleventh century, with three strings, and played on with a clumsy bow (Fig. 4). This has quite the character of the old crwth, and the method of using the fingers is shown. Another, given by him from the Cathedral of Amiens, of the thirteenth century, with six strings, has also many of the distinctive
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