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The story of the violin, 1904
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1CHAPTER VII.
3FIRST BOWED INSTRUMENTS IN EUROPE.
5We left the rebab and its bow (presumably) in keeping of the Persian and the Arab.
7It is a matter of general history how, in the year 622 A.D., the Arab turned Mohammedan and conqueror of the faith; how he carried his victorious arms from Syria to India; and how presently (711 A.D.) a mighty cloud of dark-skinned fanatics rolled over Egypt into Spain, threatening to bury Western Europe and a young Christianity. The danger was averted by the timely victory of Carl Martell,1 and only in Spain the Moors retained a hold for several centuries more. But it is interesting in connection with our subject that very soon after this historical event, the Mussulman conquest of Spain (or rather, after Abderrahman, driven from Persia, founded, in 756, the Caliphate of Cordova in Spain), bow instruments appear for the first time in Spain and Southern Europe, and musical historians have from this fact drawn the not illogical conclusion that that modest escutcheon of peace, the fiddle-bow, came to us from its Eastern home on the wings of war.
91 Battle of Tours and Poitiers, 732 A.D.
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