Violin-making, as it was and is : being a historical, theoretical, and practical treatise on the science and art of violin-making, for the use of violin makers and players, amateur and professional . tis, Notice dAntoine Stradivari (Paris, 1856). 3 Abon-Nasr-Mohammed-Ibn-Obeydallah-Alkaysi Al-Farabi, Istikasat-ilm-musike [Elements of Music], a manuscript, written about 930, and nowpreserved in the library of the Escurial at Madrid. 4 J. G. L. Kosegarten, Alii Hispanensis liber cantilenarum magnus excodicibus manuscriptis Arabice editus (Greifswalde, 1841). 42 violin-making: as it was and


Violin-making, as it was and is : being a historical, theoretical, and practical treatise on the science and art of violin-making, for the use of violin makers and players, amateur and professional . tis, Notice dAntoine Stradivari (Paris, 1856). 3 Abon-Nasr-Mohammed-Ibn-Obeydallah-Alkaysi Al-Farabi, Istikasat-ilm-musike [Elements of Music], a manuscript, written about 930, and nowpreserved in the library of the Escurial at Madrid. 4 J. G. L. Kosegarten, Alii Hispanensis liber cantilenarum magnus excodicibus manuscriptis Arabice editus (Greifswalde, 1841). 42 violin-making: as it was and is. this for me, told me these old violins (vieuz-vielles) arehanded down from father to son, and are extremely scarce, and impossible to obtain from theirowners. Now the Rebab was,without doubt, in use among theMoors in the seventh century, and,as they proceeded along the Northof Africa and conquered Spain inthe eighth century, that accountsfor its presence along their trackfrom that time to the present as the Arabs themselves assertthat they got the Rebab with theKemangeh from Persia, we thusreach the intelligence again ofanother ancient Persian instru-ment, which makes another link.


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