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Show OLE BULL.-One of Ole Bull's tricks was, when he had diminished his tone to a nearly inaudible pianissimo, to continue the attitude, as if he were playing, but actually having drawn off the bow entirely from the violin, holding it in the air, and producing no tone whatever, while his audience, in raptures at the softness of his really inaudible sighs, made ear-trumpets of their hands and bent forward, eager to catch the sound which did not exist. Then the violinist, as if suddenly awakening from a trance, bowed to the enraptured audience. |