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The story of the violin, 1904
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Story of the Violin
3globe, carrying its sweet influence—joy, comfort, new hope, new faith, and new strength, and all the lovely flowers of the soul—alike to rich and poor, into the palace and the hut. What would this world of ours be to-day without its violin? Both king and lowly servant of the art, what is it not, dear, blessed little instrument! The master-minds of composition drew inspiration from it, sovereign soul of our orchestra; it holds us spellbound, thrills and moves us in the artist's hands; it forms part of the scanty luggage of the emigrant to keep him company on his lonely farm out west when winter evenings are long and thoughts will wander back to the old homestead far across the sea. How eminently fitted, too, it is for its high mission among men!
5Who will describe it, tone of a Stradivari violin, when the true artist draws it from its hiding-place?
7That indescribably sweet voice—voice of an angel and yet ringing with the dear familiar sound of earth, with earthly passions, joys and woes and ecstasies; intensely human and yet so superhuman that the soul is seized with hopeless longing to follow it, to float with it through realms unknown and infinite, charged, we know not how, with music or with love. Yes, indescribably sweet voice, where thou endest the music of the spheres begins. (Or, is it that perhaps which rises from the petals of flowers in wondrous exhalations, half-perfume and half-melody, and, trembling in the sunlight, draws the bee to the honey?)
9Was ever form more perfect symbol of the tone, the
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