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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
17 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 424. See the scan on archive.org.
1It is interesting to notice an earlier and remarkable allusion to the union of sound from the pen of Shakespeare—
3"If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
4 By unions married, do offend thine ear,
5They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
6 In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
7Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
8 Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
9Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
10 Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing."
12VIOLINS FROM A MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW.
14"Music and the sounds of instruments—says the lively Vigneul 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 the 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 harmoniously becalmed."—D'Israeli's "Curiosities of Literature."
16Dr. Abercrombie recommends "Careful classification of the insane, so that the mild and peaceful melancholic may not be harassed by the ravings
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