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Now the reality was in my hold, I only felt that I was dusty with the dust of small-coal, and that I had a weight upon my daily remembrance to which the anvil was a feather.
Vulcan was very angry when he heard such dreadful news, so he went to his smithy brooding mischief, got his great anvil into its place, and began to forge some chains which none could either unloose or break, so that they might stay there in that place.
The blacksmith’s shop in the center of the village became the focus of this activity because it was the blacksmith who often officiated at these ceremonies, striking his anvil with a hammer to signify that the union was official.
Although the laws on marriage changed over the years, the anvil weddings continued, still performed by the amiable blacksmith.
Pressure from the church and state eventually forced a ban on anvil weddings, in 1940.
What a difference from Beethoven, who, all his life, was hammering out the same subjects, and putting his melodies on the anvil twenty times before they reached their final form.
The blacksmith was singing at his work, and the strokes of his hammer on the anvil kept time to his song.
Assuming this story to have no foundation in fact, no satisfactory explanation has been forthcoming to account for the origin of the title, and when, in 1835, the story was investigated, it was claimed that both anvil and hammer had been traced as having passed through several hands.
The blacksmith's name was said to have been Powell, and the anvil is described as bearing a capital P, and, further, that 'when struck with the hammer it gives, first, the note B, but immediately afterwards sounds E.
'[4] The strokes of his hammer on the anvil kept time to his song.
'The strokes of his hammer on the anvil kept time to his song.
The anvils would have given the sound, but in order to produce the octave, fifth, etc.
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