gambists

Updated: May 28, 2025

Formerly, for many years, it seems to have been considered improper, or ungraceful, or unladylike, the reasons are nowhere satisfactorily given, but the fact remains that until recently few women played the violin. From the year 1610 until 1810 the list of those who played in public is extremely short, numbering only about twenty, and of these several were gambists.

Henry Charles Lahee - Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday