[68b] In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species.
[71] Old English Instruments of Music, by Francis W. Galpin, 1910.
[72] Modern harps, however, have pedals for raising the natural note of any string by a semi-tone.
[73a] It has also a greater compass than the rote.
[73b] In obedience to good authority I have here adopted the spelling Clairsech instead of Clarsech. I presume that the spelling Clarsy (p. 74) is intentionally phonetic.
[74a] We imagine the gittern to be laid flat on a table with strings uppermost.
[74b] Galpin, p. 21.
[77a] In Mr Dolmetsch’s The Interpretation of the Music of the XVIlth and XVIIIth Centuries (N.D.), the author also points out, p. 446, that the frets of the viol give to the stopped notes the “clear ring” of the open strings. He claims also that in the viol “the manner of holding the bow and ordering its strokes . . . prevents the strong accents characteristic” of the violin, and facilitates “an even and sustained tone.”
He recommends (p. 452) that frets should be added to the Double Bass, which would “give clearness to many rapid passages which at present only make a rumbling noise.”
[77b] On Mace’s title-page he describes himself as “one of the Clerks of Trinity Colledge in the University of Cambridge.”