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The Story of the Violin, 1914
14 lines. Read by computer on 16 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Story of the Violin
3it is not surprising that the place of the bass in a quartet¹ of rebecks was usually filled by an instrument called the marine trumpet² (see Fig. 10). one of two readings
4it is not surprising that the place of the bass in a quartet¹ of rebeccs was usually filled by an instrument called the marine trumpet² (see Fig. 10). one of two readings
6More varied were the changes which the viol, or rather the fiedel or oldest predecessor of the viol, had to suffer before it found its last rest in the form of the violin. We know very little of its whereabouts until the beginning or middle of the thirteenth century, when it must have been in considerable vogue in Southern Europe.
8According to Branzoli,³ there is in the archives of Bologna a decree of the year 1261 forbidding—at the risk of a fine of one hundred soldi for the first offence—the going about and playing the viol by night in the streets of that city. A similar law existed also in England several centuries later.
10From the thirteenth century we find the viol mentioned in many poetical productions, particularly of Provence, and also in many illustrations representing the instrument in various modifications: sometimes
12¹ and ² Stradivari, pp. 31, 32.
13³ G. Branzoli: Manuale Storico del Violinista, 1894.
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