Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 32
g said that /■[. the guitar was brought to Spain by the Moors,about a thousandyears ago. Old guitars of the seventeenth cen-tury are beautifully inlaid with ivory, tortoise-shell, ebony, and mother-of-pearl. Of beautiful old musical instruments there isno end, and wherever one is found it has… … presses the little ivory keys which make thedifferent notes. This instrument is never heardnow except in the hands of street musicians.In the cities and towns of England, Italian boysgo about the streets with a hurdy-gurdy anda cage of white mice. While one boy grindsaway at the instrument, the…
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