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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
8 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1appears to have been one of the many instruments used about this time in accompanying the marriage guests to the church, as from a work in 1543 we read, "Such folks also do come to the church with all manner of pompe and pride, and gorgiousness of rayment and jewels. They come with a great noise of harpes, lutes, kyttes, basens and drommes, wherwyth they trouble the whole church, &c."* Upon the return of Queen Mary to Scotland in 1560, violins and rebecks were used in Edinburgh to celebrate her arrival; and in the following year we have mention of violins being used to accompany the plays in the Court of Queen Elizabeth, and a few years later a violin is described belonging to this Queen, with a hole cut through the hand for admitting the thumb of the player. In a rare tract, written during the reign of this sovereign,† the author, referring to the ancient Morris-dancers, observes, "Footing the Morris about the May-pole, and he not hearing the minstrelsie for the fiddling, the tune for the sound, nor the pipe for the noise of the tabor, bluntly demanded if they were not all beside themselves, that they so lip'd and skip'd without any occasion," from which it may be presumed that the "fiddlers" in those ancient times sometimes combined to render their playing a work of "strength." one of two readings
2appears to have been one of the many instruments used about this time in accompanying the marriage guests to the church, as from a work in 1543 we read, "Such folks also do come to the church with all manner of pompe and pride, and gorgiousness of rayment and jewels. They come with a great noise of harpes, lutes, kyttes, basens and drommes, wherwyth they trouble the whole church, &c."* Upon the return of Queen Mary to Scotland in 1560, violins and rebeccs were used in Edinburgh to celebrate her arrival; and in the following year we have mention of violins being used to accompany the plays in the Court of Queen Elizabeth, and a few years later a violin is described belonging to this Queen, with a hole cut through the hand for admitting the thumb of the player. In a rare tract, written during the reign of this sovereign,† the author, referring to the ancient Morris-dancers, observes, "Footing the Morris about the May-pole, and he not hearing the minstrelsie for the fiddling, the tune for the sound, nor the pipe for the noise of the tabor, bluntly demanded if they were not all beside themselves, that they so lip'd and skip'd without any occasion," from which it may be presumed that the "fiddlers" in those ancient times sometimes combined to render their playing a work of "strength." one of two readings
4In the records of Orkney is a passage referring to the execution of a murderer in 1616, who had killed one "David Sandie, fiddler, with ane durk;" and about this time the violin was also well known in the Shetland
6* Christen State of Matrimony.
7† Plaine Percevall the Peacemaker of England.
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