Scan 95
Voice and violin: sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences by T.L. Phipson, 1898
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 77. See the scan on archive.org.
1After making several low bows and salutations in the Eastern fashion, the foreign artist was requested to step upon a small raised platform, where, after a few kind words from the Bey, he drew forth his beautiful Amati violin and his bow, and at once commenced his performance.
3At the first sounds of the instrument every person in the room was very much delighted. No one in that country had ever heard such music.
5It began by an allegro movement, which attracted keen attention, and decidedly raised the spirits of the audience. Every one was enchanted, and applauded heartily. Presently there came some pizzicato and harmonic passages, which caused the Bey and his companions to smile; then with these were intermingled some imitations of the crowing of a cock and the braying of an ass, which were at once responded to by some animals belonging to the Bey, the sounds having reached them through the open windows, and this caused great laughter. Finally came the most inimitable mewing of a cat, the bellowing of a bull, and the warbling of little birds, like canaries, so natural as to be easily mistaken for real birds; and the whole concluded in a brilliant and fantastic display of execution of so comical a character that the whole audience was convulsed with laughter; the Bey held his sides, and the courtiers rolled one against the other in uncontrollable fits of hilarity, mingled with a loud
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