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 . considers oneto be older. From the epithet Teutonica, they wereevidently instruments derived from or belonging to thenorthern countries, and similar to the chrotta Britannica,and not at this time played on with the bow. The wordcythara seems to have been used by the early writers asa general expression for many classes of stringed instru-ments : the cyt
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 . considers oneto be older. From the epithet Teutonica, they wereevidently instruments derived from or belonging to thenorthern countries, and similar to the chrotta Britannica,and not at this time played on with the bow. The wordcythara seems to have been used by the early writers asa general expression for many classes of stringed instru-ments : the cythara Anglica, for instance, was a harp,another example of a northern instrument. Cassiodorus,in the sixth century, includes among stringed instruments,and which he says were struck with a plectrum, * speciescithararum diversarum. These instruments, including the ancient psalterion,were not viewed by the Churchmen with favour for HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. 23 ecclesiastical use. In the Council of Cloveshoe, 747, itwas decreed that ex monasteriis citharistae aliiquefidicines expellerentur; and St. Jerome says, fidicinaset psaltrias et hujusmodi chorum diaboli quasi mortiferasirenarum carmina proturba ex aedibus tuis. The 6^Tl)0ra teutonic FIG. 2.
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