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The violin: some account of that leading instrument, and its most eminent professors, from its earliest date to the present time;, 1878
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1THE VIOLIN,
2ETC.
4CHAPTER I.
5ORIGINAL AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN.
7First seat him somewhere, and derive his race.—DRYDEN.
9The Fiddle Family, like other tribes that have succeeded in making a noise in the world, has given exercise to the ingenuity of learned theorists and time-seekers, who have laboured to discover for it an origin as remote from our own era, as it is, I fear, from any kind of truth. It has probably been conceived that the Fiddle, associated as he has been, from generation to generation, with jigs, country-dances, fairs, junketings and other rusticities, had descended too low in the scale of society—that he had rendered himself, as Shakspeare for a while did his own genius, "stale and cheap to vulgar company"—and that he required to be reminded of his primitive dignity, and of his very high ancestral derivation—if he had any. This latter point was of course to be first established; but, as your zealous antiquary is a
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