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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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1In this representation (borrowed from "Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England") we discern something which it is possible to call a fiddle, without much violence to our notions "de rerum natura." There is grotesqueness, but not deformity: there is much of the general character of the true violin, though some of its most particular beauties are wanting. It is true that the sound-holes look as if no notes save circulars were to be permitted to issue through them—that the tail-piece seems forced to do duty for a bridge—that the sides have no indented middle, or waist, to give the aspect of elegance, and accommodate the play of the bow over the two extreme strings—that the finger-board is non-existent—and that the scroll, that crowning charm of the fiddle's form, is but poorly made amends for by
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