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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1the other is playing upon this rudimentary violin. In "Strutt's Sports and Pastimes" is to be found a somewhat similar illustration.
3Upon the cover of an ancient manuscript Bible is a picture containing three figures, the centre one being an acrobat, standing head downwards—one upon the left is represented as playing upon a two-stringed fiddle or rebec; the other figure, upon the right, appears to be performing on a tambourine. This copy is ascribed to the thirteenth century, and is supposed to have originally belonged to the Abbey of Dunfermline. Amongst the ornamental bas reliefs upon the Abbey of Melrose, there is a representation of an instrument supposed by some to be of the true violin type, by others, the crwth. This venerable structure was the work of a Parisian architect, and was founded in 1136. Dauney in his work, "Ancient Scottish Melodies," concludes that no such instruments as the violin prevailed in Scotland about this time, as Giraldus Cambrensis, who wrote in 1187, only speaks of the harp; the tabour, and the bagpipe, in use amongst the Scots, but from other sources, we are inclined to think different—but this is a matter more suitable to the researches of the antiquarian than to the general reading of the violin amateur.
5Many other ancient representations of the violin species might be enumerated, of which the following must suffice for the present:—Upon one of the stained glass windows of Dronfield Church, Derbyshire; of Staple Church, Kent; St. Denis, near Paris; also upon the carved seats of the choir in Worcester Cath-
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