THE V I O LIN AND ITS MUSIC, GEORGE HART, "HE VIOLIN: ITS ...

THE VIOLIN AND ITS MUSIC.
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CHAPTER 1.
,. N OTHING made so great a denovement in
.... musick as the invention of. horse-hair, with
rozin, and the gutts of animals twisted and drYed.
I scarce think that the strings f the old Lyra used
in either the Jewish or Greek times, which in latine
are termed nerves, were such, becaus it was more
,or less piacular to deal in that manner with the
.entra of dead animalls. Nor is it any where, as I
know, intimated of what materiall these strings were
made, but I guess they were metalline, as most
sonorous, or of twisted silk ; n()r is there any hint
when the Violl kind came first in use. Had the
Greeks known it, some deity, for certain, had bin
the inventor, and more worthily than Apollo of the
Harp, for it draws a continuing sound, exactly tune-
,able to all occasions and compass, with small labour
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