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Show ViCLI?! EASILY AT THS HEAD Pct;Mar Oualllics Hava Cr. '.':-.;! It t3 Be Cro.vned Ki.ig of Mi:;icol tiitrLi.r.ents. Restricd'd os Is its range of (!ya-aiiiif, (!ya-aiiiif, Liu; violin ha:; had for its votor-ii votor-ii 3 nx-u of such viili'ly Uiifcrcnt tern- IMTiucuts as i.-' ii.:; a nini and Spoilt", Will-kclioj Will-kclioj and Kai;aal.u, Juacbim and YKiiya. lis Iitoi'atiifo does not ;om-Iiar-j witli tl.at. of tho piano, i-.ii" wliicli I inch, iJoL'tiuiven, Schumann, Chopin and lirahuis have written their choic. st niu.sic; yot the intimate nature na-ture of tiie violin, its capacity for passionate pas-sionate emotion, crowns it and not the organ, with its mechanical tonal effects as the king of instruments. Nov docs tiie voice make the peculiarly peculiar-ly poignant appeal of the violin. Its lowest note is the G below the treble clef, and :i top note a mere snaieak; but it seems in a lew 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 grasp of a master it is capable of rousing the suul. James Huneker, in Everybody's. |