The History of the Violin : And Other Instruments Played On With the Bow From the Remotest Times to the Present. Also, An Account of the Principal Makers, English And Foreign, With Numerous Illustrations
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Heylin, in his " Voyage of France," 1679, says it was the custom at Tours for each man at table to pay the fiddlers a sou ; they expected no more, and would not take less. Pepys was probably considered as an authority in his own circle for musical arrangements. On 7th May, 1660, Admiral Sir Edward Montagu, afterwards Earl of Sandwich, whom he calls "my Lord," gave him directions " to write for silk flags and scarlet waistcloathes ; for a rich barge, for a noise of trumpets, and a set of fiddler...s." On 10th April, 1661, he gives an account of a duet, not complimentary to the per- formers. " Here (Rochester) we had for my sake two fiddles, the one a base-viall, on which he that played, played well some lyra lessons, but both together made the worst musique that ever I heard." On the Corona- tion Day, 23rd April, 1661, he took a great deal of pleasure " to go up and down, and look upon the ladies, and to hear the musique of all sorts ; but above all, the 1 52 HISTOEY OF THE VIOLIN. twenty-four violins." On 8th May following he refers to a circumstance which sometimes occurs in the present day, of a country fiddler having been a person who had seen better days.
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