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The Violin & Its Story: Or the History & Construction of the Violin, 1905
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1FOREWORD BY THE TRANSLATOR.
3The devotees of the violin are to be found all over the globe; their name is legion, and their devotion to their fascinating instrument has no parallel in the world of music. Every scrap of information about the origin, the history, or the development of the string family, and above all, about the violin itself, is gratefully accepted and eagerly read and re-read by its hundreds of thousands of worshippers, who regard their "fiddles" with a loving enthusiasm which is felt for no other instrument in the whole realm of musical art. The translator feels, therefore, that no apology is needed for introducing to violin lovers the following chapters of a work which he has himself read with intense pleasure, and the translation of which into his mother tongue has been to him a veritable "labour of love"; because he is certain at the outset that the reading of what he has translated with so much enjoyment will afford the readers of this volume a like gratification.
5In turning Abele's work into English, I have here and there put a note to remind the reader that his book was written about forty years ago. This must be constantly remembered in reading this work; and the reader will easily be able to understand how Abele would have treated his subject if he had written at the end of the nineteenth century. The book has long been out of print, and cannot be bought even in Germany. Its contents, however, are of such great value—and show so much original research, as well as great artistic insight and a lively appreciation of the subject on which the author writes—that this English translation will, without doubt, afford much gratification to all interested in the violin.
7G. A.
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