Show jv i city v airy lale ar aal nary nii d irl bonnar w Am amow fw NEW HISTORY it seemed to minna as though she were hearing a new kind of history when the instruments in the music shop told he their story the bass viol was telling so much about the different ones it was so jolly to see them like athla outside of hours when they were able to talk to her and when they could run about and play all by themselves I 1 must tell you more about pur violin friend alie bass viol said lou can say if you wish that he belongs to the thirteenth century of course sou will find some of hla grandparents way back in ancient greek as well as in ardent egyptian musical circles but it was in the thirteenth century that he became rather similar to our violin of toilie around those times troubadours dours used to sing and play they used an instrument which wa a boriff combination of n fiddle guitar and hurdy in the fifteenth century people bean to make instruments to sound like peoples voices there were the tenor viol the treble viol and here Is where I 1 first c me in the bass viol but the real violin was born in lombardy Lom birdy in the far northern part of italy where the males and the pines and the sycamores amores gave their wood and the green meadows and blue lakes and snow covered mountains rejoiced that more beauty was coming into their midst one of the violin 3 ancestors Is the tenor viol the earliest violins were made by gaspiro dl salo hut an conlo stradivari ft as the greatest of ill the great violin makers later on the bass viol was telling bo much francois tourte made a bow and from that model all the present day bows are made ab dear 1 could go CD talking end lessly about the different men who worked over perfecting our beautiful violin but you austn t now dear bass viol the violin said minna will want to hear of the others auve not tola about yourself as yet modest fellow the violin the bass viol continued and blanna who wanted to hear more about the violin at the ame mme time dolfl want to hear about the others as well there was so much to be heird she had never realized how much family history musical instruments had tell me all you can she urged well the bass viol went on carlo bergonzo made the best bas riols viols ini a mixture of violin and viola di gamba viola da gamba lg the father of the violoncello which Is really a small double bass minna thought to herself she would let hilss know how much she had learned miss would be so pleased and so proud of her carlo was stradivari a pet pupil I 1 might add and carlo used the famous gas paro dl sales model 1 I can date back to the fifteenth century but I 1 did se a few changes in ms self after that 1 I have the deepest notes of all and they say I 1 make a fin background for the melodies and harmonies of the less aleavy less sturdy instruments then there s little piccolo oh I 1 noticed him sometime ago please tell me about him minna urged the piccolo came trotting over and sat down at the feet of the bass lol waiting to hear his story told the owner of the chop Is quite crazy about ills little piccolo the bass viol went on piccolo Is less than half the length of r lute but he plays an octave alove and how he cin run and how he can shriek listen some time 0 o him alve a chromatic scale and iou will notice what a piercing voice he has lie dates from the early part of the can tura in the improved condition in which you now see him piccolo at tills the trumpet was now polishing himself now very bright and bhan ing he looked 1 |