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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1seen his fiddle, or heard him play, to which they responded in the negative. Those righteous and long-faced worthies being now anxious to hear him play, he brings a violoncello, and pathetically plays a psalm-tune, to which they willingly accompanied him by singing, after which they appeared completely satisfied, expressing their verdict of sanctity in the use of such by the following choice decision. "A muckle, fat, releegious soonin fiddle like that, there was nae hairm in, na, na; that was nane o' yer scandalous penny waddin' fiddles that they hed haurd tell o'"
3The Minister-Painter, and Fiddler.—The following extract, relative to the late "Minister-Painter," the Rev. Mr. Thomson of Duddingstone, may appositely follow the foregoing. "A solitary, sad-eyed, mediæval monk, illuminating missals in a cloistered silence, broken only by the tinkling of refectory or prayer bells is familiar enough to the imagination, but a modern presbyterian clergyman, painting pictures on week days, and preaching sermons on Sundays; writing papers on optics to the Edinburgh Review, and drawing tears in the evening by his violin performances; throwing down his brushes of a forenoon, placing against the wall a picture of the Bass, with a thunder-cloud blackening over it; going out to see an ailing parishioner, and noting on his way how a sunbeam made gleam the ivies on Craigmillar, which a shower had just wet, and returning to receive to dinner Sir Walter Scott, fresh from the Bride of Lammermoor, and Sir David Wilkie, fresh from Spain and the study of Velasquez; this complex activity, this variety of duty, this fulness
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