Excerpt from The Violin and Its Music"There is nothing in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing the Fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron if you give him a hammer, not so well as a smith, but tolerably; and make a box, though a clumsy one; but give him a Fiddle and a Fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing." Dr. Johnson.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.