The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the presentAlso, an account of the principal makers, English and foreign, with numerous illustrationsBy William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster . s, where it is called a nableor guitar, and there are figures of a portable lyre orharp struck by a plectrum. In one bas-relief fromKonyunjik there is a representation of musicians goingto meet the Assyrian conquerors—three men carry harpswith many strings ; another has a stringed instrumentlike the modern sautour of the Egyptians, with a numberof strin
The history of the violin, and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the presentAlso, an account of the principal makers, English and foreign, with numerous illustrationsBy William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster . s, where it is called a nableor guitar, and there are figures of a portable lyre orharp struck by a plectrum. In one bas-relief fromKonyunjik there is a representation of musicians goingto meet the Assyrian conquerors—three men carry harpswith many strings ; another has a stringed instrumentlike the modern sautour of the Egyptians, with a numberof strings stretched over a hollow case or sounding-board ; the strings are pressed with the fingers of theleft hand, and struck by a small wand or hammer in theright; there are also four women playing harps. The Egyptians and Ninevites, as before observed,had in the earliest ages an instrument somewhat similarto the crwth, which was not played on with a bow,but sometimes with a plectrum, sometimes only withthe fingers; the strings varying from three to thirteen(Fig. 1). When the tide of population flowed westwardand northward, the descendants of Japhet took thiscrwth-shaped instrument with them, and in very early •20 HISTORY OF THE ages were established in our country. The bow, we consider, was afterwards intro-duced or invented here, for wefind here the earliest trace ofit, and none of any antiquity inthe East. The wand or plec-trum was an approach to thebow ; the beating on the tight-ened strings inducing the ex-periment of the effect of fric-tion, and thus leading to its before the time ofCaesar there were inhabitants inour land who had made con-siderable progress in the artsand learning of the early ages,as the Celtic records remain-ing prove ; and the earliest ofthese show their love for music. It is supposed byscholars of high repute, that Ireland and the south-western parts of England were in very early agespeopled from the peninsula-of Spain, where the Ph
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