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A treatise on the structure and preservation of the violin and all other bow-instruments : together with an account of the most celebrated makers, and of the genuine characteristics of their instruments
London: W. Reeves, 1875.
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| 11 | AUTHOR'S PREFACE. | Read | |
| 12 | most of the good Italian violins, and th… | Read | |
| 13 | TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. | Read | |
| 14 | different workmen, as well as different… | Read | |
| 15 | CONTENTS. | Read | |
| 17 | A TREATISE ON THE VIOLIN. | Read | |
| 18 | Now, though all these are not indispensa… | Read | |
| 19 | 3 | may be used, the pieces when cut measuri… | Read |
| 20 | 4 | the thick or bark-parts of the pieces fo… | Read |
| 21 | 5 | which the wood is cut and filed away on… | Read |
| 22 | 6 | CHAPTER II. | Read |
| 23 | 7 | it to the negligence or unskilfulness of… | Read |
| 24 | 8 | they have, however, a peculiar model, wh… | Read |
| 25 | 9 | Martin Hoffmann, of Leipzig, who is chie… | Read |
| 26 | 10 | of his instruments, many of which have b… | Read |
| 27 | 11 | Bachmann, of Berlin, was one of the most… | Read |
| 28 | 12 | without paying too great a regard to the… | Read |
| 29 | 13 | name; which, as he followed his father's… | Read |
| 30 | 14 | bad instrument-makers or itinerant workm… | Read |
| 31 | 15 | meddles with the repair and improvement… | Read |
| 32 | 16 | CHAPTER III. | Read |
| 33 | 17 | These are the proportions best adapted f… | Read |
| 34 | 18 | do not extend far beyond them at the bac… | Read |
| 35 | 19 | very fine, the fibres are perfectly equi… | Read |
| 36 | 20 | father's,* except that he was not so par… | Read |
| 37 | 21 | excellent, and almost preferable to a St… | Read |
| 38 | 22 | of age, and in no respect detrimental to… | Read |
| 39 | 23 | none but what are higher. Their shape is… | Read |
| 40 | 24 | The violins of Joseph Guarnerius are ver… | Read |
| 41 | 25 | narrower than in the Cremonese (in which… | Read |
| 42 | 26 | genuine instruments and the imitations,… | Read |
| 54 | 38 | depends. I have myself remedied many gla… | Read |
| 55 | 39 | and violoncellos, these being constructe… | Read |
| 56 | 40 | hand; whilst this is really the greatest… | Read |
| 67 | 51 | Fétis's "Rapport sur les Instruments de… | Read |
| 68 | 52 | with the same admirable result as on the… | Read |
| 69 | 53 | APPENDIX. | Read |
| 82 | 66 | of Naples. They are ranged in the follow… | Read |
| 83 | 67 | Some violin makers, born in foreign coun… | Read |
| 84 | 68 | There was another Albani, who worked in… | Read |
| 85 | 69 | the seventeenth century. He was one of t… | Read |
| 107 | GENERAL INDEX. | Read | |
| 108 | Dominicelli, 63. | Read | |
| 109 | 89 | L'Institut, referred to, 32*, 74*. | Read |
| 110 | 90 | Schmidt, 7, 11, 11*, 26. | Read |
| 118 | REEVES' DICTIONARY OF MUSICIANS. Biograp… | Read | |
| 147 | 35 | VIOLIN AND STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. | Read |
| 148 | 36 | OLD VIOLINS AND VIOLIN LORE, Famous Make… | Read |
| 149 | 37 | INFORMATION FOR PLAYERS, Owners, Dealers… | Read |
| 150 | 38 | THE VIOLIN AND OLD VIOLIN MAKERS. Being… | Read |
| 159 | TUTORS AND EXERCISE BOOKS. | Read |
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