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Scan 38
The story of the violin, 1904
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1Origin of the Violin
3and accomplished musical amateur—by adopting the names of the two prototypes of the musical profession in the Middle Ages, fiddlers and pipers, wished simply to convey the idea which is also expressed in the English version—viz., that Jubal was the father of musicians generally, or of players on string and wind instruments as typifying the highest forms of instrumental music. Nevertheless, would it really be so impossible for this or some other prehistoric Jubal to have also been the inventor of bow-instruments—the "father of fiddlers"?
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