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The Story of the Violin, 1914
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1Story of the Violin.
3PART I.
5CHAPTER I.
7ORIGIN OF THE VIOLIN.
9The origin of the violin, it seems, is still a puzzle to our musical historians and archaeologists. True, they know that the first real violin made its appearance on the musical horizon about the middle of the sixteenth century. They know, too, it did not spring into existence—to use a familiar phrase—like Minerva, armour-clad and beautiful, out of the head of Jupiter. Its gradual development from inferior forms of bow-instruments is proved beyond doubt, and has been traced, more or less clearly, for centuries back, with the help of representations of such instruments on monuments, bas-reliefs, wood carvings, miniatures, etc., and occasional allusions to them in contemporary literature—all collected by the untiring zeal of the antiquarian on the highways and byways of
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