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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1SINGULAR MUSICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRINITY IN UNITY.
3Christopher Simpson, in his work entitled "The Division Viol," 1659, says: "I cannot but wonder, even to amazement, that from no more than three concords (with some intervening discords) there should arise such an infinite variety, as all the music that ever has been or ever shall be composed. When I further consider 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."
5OLE BULL AND FIDDLE VARNISH.
7"A man who had a patent varnish for Violins, brought his invention to Ole Bull, and begged him to try it. He said that it gave ordinary instruments the sweet quality of a Cremona Fiddle. Ole Bull tried it, and found that it improved the tone, and promised to use a Violin prepared with it at a concert he had to give at the house of the Duke of Riario."
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