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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1ably on the flute. His greatest pleasure was to perform the trios and quartetts of the old masters. One of the household physicians of the court excelled on the Tenor. As imperial etiquette did not permit a simple physican to accompany the Emperor in his pieces unless he had the entrée at court, Francis first created his doctor a baron and then a privy councillor, thus giving him his petites and grandes entrées. By the help of his Tenor playing our medical musician insinuated himself so successfully into the good graces of the emperor, that he became almost the rival of Metternich, and all the other ministers courted his friendship. Such was the rise of the celebrated Baron Still. But for his Viola, this all-powerful favourite of Francis the First would have lived and died an obscure physician."—Critique Musicale.
3VIOLINS FROM A MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW.
5"Music and the sounds of instruments," says the lively Vignent de Marville, "contribute to the health of the body and the mind; they assist the circulation of the blood, they dissipate vapours, and open the vessels, so that the action of perspiration is freer. He tells a story of a person of distinction, who assured him, that once being suddenly seized by violent illness, instead of a consultation of physicians, he immediately called a band of musicians, and their Violins played so well in his inside; that his bowels became perfectly in tune, and in a few hours were
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