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Scan 38
The violin and its music, 1881
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 18. See the scan on archive.org.
1through successive generations of wandering musicians with whom it was allied at the period of its own creation, until its strange destiny associated it with the greatest of all conversions in relation to bowed instruments, namely, its own transmutation into the Violin of four strings, tuned in fifths.
3That an apparently contemptible little instrument—the companion of the juggler, the fool, and the dance—should be looked upon as having paved the way to the absolute dominion which the Viol exercised over bowed instruments for centuries, and finally dethroning it, and becoming itself the king of instruments—the Violin—may seem but a flight of fancy, but evidence is not wanting in support of the assumption.
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