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Read Ebook: The Korea Review Vol. 5 No. 5 May 1905 by Various Hulbert Homer B Homer Bezaleel Editor
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
PHOTO REPRODUCTIONS OF BOWS.
FIG. PAGE 1. Locust, showing action of hind leg in producing note . . . . 3
THE BOW: Its History, Manufacture and Use.
ORIGIN OF INSTRUMENTS--FRICTIONAL VIBRATION--THE BOW DISTINCT FROM THE PLECTRUM--THE TRIGONON--BOWING WITH VARIOUS OBJECTS.
Speculative history is, I fear, more fascinating to the writer than convincing to the reader, so I will be as brief as possible in this particular, nor will I, like one John Gunn who wrote a treatise on fingering the violoncello, fill up space with irrelevant matter such as the modes and tunings of the ancient Greek lyres, etc., highly interesting as these subjects may be, although it is a very tempting method of getting over the "bald and unconvincing" nature of the bow's early history.
We of the present generation, having the bow in its most perfect form, are apt to take its existence for granted; we do not think that there must have been a period when no such thing was known, and, consequently, fail to appreciate the difficulties in the way of its discovery or invention. With some other instruments it is different. For wind instruments we have a prototype in the human voice, and one may reasonably suppose that the trumpet class were evolved by slow process from the simple action of placing the hands on either side of the mouth to augment a shout. The harp may have been suggested by the twanging of a bow-string as an arrow left the archer's hand, and a seventeenth century play writer fancifully attributed the invention
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