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 . but souse to chitterlings:His grizly beard was long and thick,With which he strung his fiddle-stick ;For he to hoise-tail scornd to oweFor what on his own chin did grow. After this digression on the application of the wordcrowd to the violin, w^e must return for a short space tothe ancient crwth, which appears to have continued inuse in Wales until a co
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 . but souse to chitterlings:His grizly beard was long and thick,With which he strung his fiddle-stick ;For he to hoise-tail scornd to oweFor what on his own chin did grow. After this digression on the application of the wordcrowd to the violin, w^e must return for a short space tothe ancient crwth, which appears to have continued inuse in Wales until a comparatively recent time. DainesBarrington, in 1770, says that the only person that couldthen play on it was John Morgan of Newburgh inAnglesey, then aged fifty-nine years; but Bingley, inhis account of North Wales, says he heard an old bardplay on the instrument at Carnarvon in 1801. We havegiven a figure of one from Mr. Barringtons account inthe third volume of *^ Archseologia (Fig. 7). It hassix strings placed in a peculiar way, with a flat bridge,so that the bow must have struck several together, andprevented any extent of execution. The bridge is curious,as one leg goes through the sound-hole to the back of HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. 33. FIG. 7. 34 HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. the instrument, thus serving also for a sound-post Thereis no proof, however, of this example having been ofancient date. It is stated to have been thus tuned:— ? -^- -d-
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