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Into the town will I, my frendes to vysit there. And hither straight again to see th end of this yere ;I nthe meantime, fellowes, pype up your fiddles, I say, take them. And let your frendes here have such mirth as ye can make them. T. Colwell, 1575. JF necessity a history of the vioH nmust be a history, first and foremost, of everything except the vioK n. The vioH nhas no history. When Stradivari made the Perfect Fiddle its history was begun and ended in one breath. One could write elaborate stories of Paganini sC annon andS arasati sB oissier, but this would be a history of violins and violinists, not of the violin. The writer, in deep love of the greatest of all instruments and a desire to trace its origin to its most remote sources, has found herself traversing very circuitous paths, and consorting with a mixed company of instruments, all ancestors of the fiddle, undoubtedly, but bearing little more than a family resemblance to the beautiful thing the evolution of which she had begun to investigate.
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