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A Treatise On The Structure And Preservation Of The Violin, 1875
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1CONTENTS.
3CHAPTER I.—On the Construction of the Violin and other Bow-instruments … … … … … 1
4CHAPTER II.—Account of the most eminent German Makers, who have so successfully imitated the Violins of the Cremonese and those of the celebrated Jacob Stainer, that their Instruments can only be distinguished from the genuine ones by the most experienced persons … 6
5CHAPTER III.—Notice of the most esteemed Italian and Stainer's Violins, with a description of their Structure. Comparison between these and the counterfeit instruments … 16
6CHAPTER IV.—Of the Repair, Preservation, and method of bringing out the Tone of Instruments… … … 20
8APPENDIX.
10No. I.—Method of tracing a beautiful Model for a Violin, by means of a graduated perpendicular line … … 73
11No. II.—Further notice of the Cremonese Makers and some others 60
12No. III.—Some account of the Experiments made by the late Felix Savart … … … … … 70
13No. IV.—Of the Bow … … … … … 82
14No. V.—Of Mutes and Fiddle-holders … … … … 85
15No. VI.—List of Classical Works for Stringed Instruments … 86
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