Word: violine
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These inmates became friends, as the soldier, Willard, my grandfather, made necessary visits to the prison for his supplies. They exchanged corals for walking sticks, violin bows for turtle shells. Your tintype of Dr. Mudd shows him whittling another cane of hard wood, one of which is in my collection. My grandfather's painting of his lighthouse home, and the little sailboat Jenney of Loggerhead is on my wall before...
...upbringing. His father taught him music with the hope that it might earn him a living. He was set to playing the piano before he could reach the pedals and he was scarcely in his 'teens when he could tootle on a horn and play passably on the violin and 'cello. Father Brahms wanted his son to concentrate on dance tunes, for he often took him to play in the red-light district where they could earn a few thalers and all the supper they could eat. It was to Father Brahms' despair that the boy kept...
...career ever exciting save to the few who understood his music. The First Piano Concerto failed at its first hearing, partly because Brahms soloed more vigorously than accurately. The premiere of the Violin Concerto was also coolly received. It was not a display piece and Brahms, who conducted, supplied a diversion by going on stage with his suspenders unfastened. All his life Brahms suffered from the critics who tried to classify him and failed. He was an ardent romanticist, yet he adhered unfashionably to established musical forms. The world in his time was swayed by the amazing music-dreams...
...Kreisler should have resorted to such means. . . ." Other fiddlers showed greater comradeship. Yehudi Menuhin called it "one of the most creditable things that Kreisler has ever done." Albert Spalding was not surprised. Efrem Zimbalist had known, had gladly kept the secret all along. Said he: "The violin repertory has been wonderfully enriched by these compositions, and as Kreisler did not think it advisable to say they were his when he wrote them, he had a perfect right to attribute them to any one he pleased. Any composer, living or dead, should be proud to claim them...
Alfred Grosjean of Pasadena invented a sharp-angled violin, which is tuned three musical steps higher than an ordinary violinand and which he says reproduces the "celestial" or "seraphic" tones of ancient instruments. He calls it a "violaeol," a word made up from violin and aeolian. Miss Violet Sheldon was interested...