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The story of the violin, 1904
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1Music in the First Centuries A.D.
3had not among their stock-in-trade, from a punch-and-judy show, a monkey, trained dogs, bears, and pigs, to a pretty woman from the East who knew how to paint her face and roll her eyes and throw her limbs about to the wild rhythm of a Roman bacchanal. To attract attention, to amuse at any price was the first consideration; music, such as it was, was only an accessory. In this worst of company we shall next meet the ancestor of our violin.
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