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 . OF THE VIOLIN. Lydgate is given, where the following instruments arenamed,— ** Harpjs, fythels, and eke rotys,Wei accordyng with her notjs,Lutvs, rubibis, and geterns,More for estatys than taverns:Orguys, cytolys, monacordys. Here we have the word fythel introduced. Gowersays,— ** He taught her, till she was certeneOf harpe, citole, and of riote,With ma
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 . OF THE VIOLIN. Lydgate is given, where the following instruments arenamed,— ** Harpjs, fythels, and eke rotys,Wei accordyng with her notjs,Lutvs, rubibis, and geterns,More for estatys than taverns:Orguys, cytolys, monacordys. Here we have the word fythel introduced. Gowersays,— ** He taught her, till she was certeneOf harpe, citole, and of riote,With many a tewne, and many a note. And Chaucers frere,— ** Certainly he had a merry note, Wei coude he singe and plain on a rote. Very long before the time of these latter examples the rote had received variousmodifications and im-provements in form, andthe bow had been intro-duced. M. de Cousse-maker has given the fi-gure of a rote or crwthof the eleventh century,with three strings, andplayed on with a clumsybow (Fig. 4). This hasquite the character of theold crwth, and the me-thod of using the fingersis shown. Another, givenby him from the Cathe-dral of Amiens, of thethirteenth century, withsix strings, has alsomany of the distinctive. FIG. 4. HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. 29
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