Excerpt from Researches Into the Early History of the Violin Family
The author of this book has gone to his rest before the last revision of it. How little had been left for consideration or change is shown in that I have added only four footnotes to the text. For that text, its deep learning, ingenious research and happy illustration, no one can be more grateful than myself. I call attention especially to the interesting chain of reasoning which derives the Medi?val Rotte from the old Greek Lyre. But that is only a single instance of many in this admirable essay, of practical discernment in remote ways where we have but faint light to guide us. Respect for Carl Engel and his life"s work will last as long as there exists any desire to know, and disposition to assimilate, those musical facts, historical or ethnological, which lie outside our every-day experience.
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