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Show VIOLIN EASILY AT THE HEAD Peculiar Qualities Have Caused It to Ee Crowned King of Musical Instruments. Restricted as is its range of dynamics, dyn-amics, the violin has' had for its votaries votar-ies men of such widely different tera-percients tera-percients as Paganini and Spohr, Wiil-helmj Wiil-helmj and Sarasate, Joachim and Ysaye. Its literature does nol: compare com-pare with that of the piano, for which Dach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms have written their choicest music; yet the intimate ua-. ture of the violin, its capacity for passionate pas-sionate emotion, crowns it and not the orgaa,' with , its meenanical tonal effect.-- as the kins of iastn-.tuents. Nor floes the voice make the peculiarly peculiar-ly 1 o'.gaant appeal of the violin. Its lowest note is the G- lislow U10. treble clef, and its top note a raero squeak; but it seems in a few octaves to have imprisoned within its wooden walls a miniature world of feeling even in the hands of a clumsy amateur it has the formidable' power of giving pain; while in the gasp of a master it is capable of rousing the soul. James Huneker, in Everybody's. |