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• When or where the four-stringed Violin tuned in fifths first appeared in Italy is a question the answer to which must ever remain buried in the past. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
• It is this order of Viols to which reference is made in the work of Ganassi del Fontego, and they are, therefore, distinct from the four-stringed Viols made at Brescia and Mantua The earliest player on the Violin of whom we have any account worthy of attention was Baltazarini, a native of Piedmont. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
• It must not be much of a noise, however, for my stringed instruments to the right have begun the very song of the morning. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
• I am weary of being educated and leading-stringed and chaperoned. —  Patsy
• Acota listened a few minutes to the soft voice of the princess, and then took up his broken-stringed mandolin, and with a profound reverence for the benefit of the old chamberlain, he departed In the mean time, a rumour was spread abroad that at sunset a public examination of all the candidates was to take place on the bank of the rapid-flowing river, which ran through a spacious meadow near to the city, in order to reject those candidates who might prove, by any scar or blemish_, not to come expressly within the meaning of the old king's will. —  The Pacha of Many Tales

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