Identifier: amateurworkillus11881lond (find matches)
Title: Amateur work, illustrated
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Industrial arts Handicraft
Publisher: London, New York : Ward, Lock & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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FIG. 5.—GIGUE (BOS-CHERVILLE). VIOLIN-MAKING : AS IT WAS, AND IS. IS

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VIOLIN-MAKING: AS IT WAS, AND IS. 73

FIG. 6.  —— Six-stringed Crwth, exhibited at South Kensington, 1872.
FIG. 9.  —— Rebec (Boscherville).
FIG. 4.  —— Crwth (13th century).
FIG. 7.  —— Four-stringed instrument, attributed to Albinus, circa 804.

FIG. 11. —— Gigue of 14th century.
FIG. 13. —— Device of Oporinus (1530).
FIG. 12. —— Discantus.

FIG. 10. —— Three-stringed Viol (12th century).
FIG. 14. —— Viol da gamba (1659).
FIG. 15. —— Pera, or Poche, with bow (1636).

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FIG. 10.—THREE-STRINGEDVIOL I2TH CENTURY). FIG. 14.—VIOI. DA GAMRA ft6;oV FIG. IS —PERA, OR POCHE,WITH BOW 1636V 74 VIOLIN MAKING: AS IT WAS, AND IS. modern German, fidel, or fiedel. All these are givenin M. Dubourgs interesting work on the violin. Asan Anglo-Saxon word, fythele is of great antiquity,as countless extracts prove, of which I shall only quoteone, from the legendary life of St. Christopher, writtenabout A.D. 1200, In this we find— Chrystofre hym served longe,The Kynge loved melody of fythele and of song.** From the word fythele is probably derived theFrench word vielle, which is now only applied tothe hurdy-gurdy, which is nearly allied to the old organistrum, which is well represented in themuseum at Rouen, from a bas-relief of the twelfthcentury, at Boscherville. A great advance in the way of change of shape ismentioned in a MS. of the fourteenth century, whichascribes to one Albinus, who seems to have livedabout A.D. 804, the invention of a four-stringed instru

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