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 . FIG. 47. FIG. 46. The celebrated printer John Oporinus, at Basle, about1530, had for his device, Arion, sometimes standing on HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. 93 the dolphin with a small three-stringed instrument heldreversed in his left hand, and the bow in his right; andsometimes playing on a large viol with six strings, whichapproaches the modern tenor in form
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 . FIG. 47. FIG. 46. The celebrated printer John Oporinus, at Basle, about1530, had for his device, Arion, sometimes standing on HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. 93 the dolphin with a small three-stringed instrument heldreversed in his left hand, and the bow in his right; andsometimes playing on a large viol with six strings, whichapproaches the modern tenor in form (Fig. 47). Chris-topher Froschouer, a printer at Zurich of about thesame date, also has a viol in some of his title-pages. Inthe several representations of the Dances of Death ofthis age, the figure of Death is occasionally representedplaying on the viol and other instruments, while leadingon his victims with grim satisfaction to their fate. Mersennus gives a description of a bass-viol in thetime of Charles IX. which was large enough to containU young page inside, who sang the treble of some ravish-ing airs, while the performer, Granier, played the basspart on the huge instrument, and at the same time sungthe tenor, thus completing the
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