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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;
WITH
HINTS TO AMATEURS, ANECDOTES, ETC.

BY
GEORGE DUBOURG.

FOURTH EDITION,
REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED.

 

LONDON:
ROBERT COCKS AND CO.
PUBLISHERS TO THE QUEEN,
NEW BURLINGTON STREET;
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO. STATIONERS’-HALL COURT.

MDCCCLII.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY J. MALLETT,
WARDOUR STREET.

PREFACE

TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

After a lapse of nearly sixteen years since thislittle work first appeared in print, I have been calledupon to prepare it anew for the press, incorporating withit the additional matter necessary for the extension ofthe subject to the present time.

My new readers may like to know, at the outset,what is the intended scope of the following pages. Thisis soon explained. My object has been to present to thecultivators of the Violin, whether students or proficients,such a sketch (however slight) of the rise andprogress of that instrument, accompanied with particularsconcerning its more prominent professors, and withincidental anecdotes, as might help to enliven their interestin it, and a little to enlarge what may be calledtheir circumstantial acquaintance with it. This humbleobject has not been altogether, I trust, without its accomplishment;—andhere, while commending my renovatedmanual to the indulgent notice of the now happilyincreasing community of violin votaries, I would notforget to acknowledge, gratefully, the liberal and generousappreciation with which, when it first venturedforth, it was met by the public press, and introducedinto musical society.

G. D.

Brighton, August, 1852.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN.
The Fiddle Family—the Epigonion—the Semicon—the Plectrum—theMagadis and Sambuce—Orpheus and the lyre—thePlectrum an implement of percussion, not a bow—theEgyptian Chelys—Orpheus at Versailles—the fidicula of theLatin Dictionary—Welch claims—Crowd and Crowder—Instrumentof the Saxon Glee-men—Strutt’s sports and pastimes—Italy—Successivestages of the invention—the Sounding-board—theneck—the bow—the Rebec—the viol—conversionof the viol into the violin—the tenor viol, &c.—chestof viols—Cremona fidd
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