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Scan 43
The violin and its music, 1881
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 23. See the scan on archive.org.
1Countries, we cannot fail to discover the connection between the Germans and the Lowlanders with regard to music, when the art was in what may be called a bulbous state. The progressiveness which manifested itself in Germany about the middle of the fifteenth century, had its counterpart in the Netherlands. There was a seeming interchange existing between these musicians, for we find famous Germans lived in the Netherlands, and greater Netherlanders in Germany. Towards the close of the century, however, Germany was left behind, and then it was that the development of the Viol took place, which the Netherlanders' madrigal gave rise to. Now it is worthy of note, that the people of the Low Countries were much addicted to playing the Viol. We see this in the names of Dutch and Belgic Violists in the lists of different orchestras, but I am unable to discover much evidence of Viol manufacture among them. The major part of the instruments we meet with date from Nuremburg, Königsburg, and Hamburg, which points to the Germans having had the lead of the trade in their hands.
3Turning to the earliest makers of Viols in Italy, we find among them names foreign to the language of the Italians. Joan Kerlin, who is said to have worked at Brescia, is one of these. This maker is credited with having made a species of Geige, having four strings, dated 1449.* If this could be authenticated by the production of the instru-
5* Fétis, Notice of Stradiuarius.
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