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. 15. FIG. U. unfortunate man died from shame in consequence, andhis two friends are said to have died from sympathy. One of the figures of the elders at the cathedral atAmiens, of the thirteenth century, has in his hands agigue with three strings and two sound-holes, but with 48 HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. no appearance of a bridge or distinct finger-boa
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. 15. FIG. U. unfortunate man died from shame in consequence, andhis two friends are said to have died from sympathy. One of the figures of the elders at the cathedral atAmiens, of the thirteenth century, has in his hands agigue with three strings and two sound-holes, but with 48 HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN. no appearance of a bridge or distinct de Coussemaker describes one from the Cathedralat Mans, of the fourteenth century, where the head isthrown back; it has three strings, with the sound-holesplaced in a peculiar manner, and the shape is elegant,but there is no appearance of a bridge (Fig. 14). Inthe same century, the top of the instrument was fre-quently rounded, and was not unlike the modern Agricola, 1545, gives characteristic figures offour of these instruments, of different sizes ; Discantus,Altus, Tenor, and Bassus. They have three strings,bridge, tail-piece, and two crescent-shaped peculiar shape will be seen from the representati
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