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The violin and its music, 1881
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1THE VIOLIN AND ITS MUSIC.
3Section I.—The Viol Gothic.
5CHAPTER I.
7"NOTHING made so great a denovement in musick as the invention of horse-hair, with rozin, and the gutts of animals twisted and dried. I scarce think that the strings of the old Lyra used in either the Jewish or Greek times, which in latine are termed nerves, were such, becaus it was more or less piacular to deal in that manner with the entra of dead animalls. Nor is it any where, as I know, intimated of what materiall these strings were made, but I guess they were metalline, as most sonorous, or of twisted silk; nor is there any hint when the Violl kind came first in use. Had the Greeks known it, some deity, for certain, had bin the inventor, and more worthily than Apollo of the Harp, for it draws a continuing sound, exactly tune-able to all occasions and compass, with small labour
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