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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
12 lines. Read by computer on 1 October 2026. Printed page 336. See the scan on archive.org.
1Unity. 'When I further consider,' he says, 'that three sounds placed by the interval of a third one above another, do constitute one entire harmony, which governs and comprises all the sounds that by art or imagination can at once be joined together in musical concordance, that I cannot but think a significant emblem of that Supreme and Incomprehensible Three in One, governing, comprising, and disposing the whole machine of the world, with all its included parts, in a most perfect and stupendous harmony.'"—New Cyclopædia of Anecdote.
3"Puppo, the Violinist being in Paris in 1793, was summoned before the Committee of Public Safety on suspicion, when the following interrogatories were put to him. 'Your name?' 'Puppo.' 'What were you doing during the time of the tyrant?' 'I played the Violin.' 'What do you do now?' 'I play the Violin.' 'And what will you do for the nation?' 'I will play the Violin.'"
5A MOTTO ON A CREMONA.
7"In silvis viva silvi; cano'ra jam mor'tua cano."
8"Speechless, alive, I heard the feathered throng;
9Now, being dead, I emulate their song."
11Sir Walter Scott's barristers possess among their gentlemanly embellishments a knowledge of stringed
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