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Scan 75
The story of the violin, 1904
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1Story of the Violin
3FIG. 9.—MEDIÆVAL ORCHESTRA, ELEVENTH CENTURY.
4Bas-relief, Abbey of St. Georges de Boscherville, Normandy.
6sojourn in Oriental countries. When and how it came to Europe, whether before or after the introduction of the rebab, we do not know. Some features point to a relation to the Indian saranguy, a supposed cousin of the omerti and sarinda, and descendant of the ravanastron; and it is just possible that two branches of the same family of Indian bowed instruments existed and developed simultaneously and yet apart from each other in the course of ages, until they met in the camp of the wandering minstrel. It is also possible that its history and relation lay in quite another direction—viz., that it was originally some Asiatic, Persian, Hebrew, Arabic (or Greek, if you will) twanged instrument which found its way into Western Europe during the great migration of the people, for all we know, in the track of the Huns
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