Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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De fidiculis bibliographia: being an attempt towards a bibliography of the violin and all other instruments played with a bow in ancient and modern times, 1890

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1part, though the class dealing with individual technique and schools of execution is really a branch of Biography. In like manner all works on (i.) the History, (ii.) Construction, (iii.) Guilds, and (iv.) Varnish should have made one comprehensive class, save that History and Guilds intermingle also with Biography, and Varnish with Construction. Biography is entitled to a place apart, though many works of apparently pure Biography are, like Fétis' works on Paganini and Stradivarius, largely composed of the general History of the Violin. When, therefore, the time arrives for a second edition of this work, I shall allow only three great Sections:—I. History and Construction, II. Biography, and III. Violin-playing. The same system shall apply to Book Sections and Extracts, and all articles from Periodical Publications or Proceedings of Societies shall be collected under the titles of the publications containing them, and they shall be made easy of reference by means of a subject index. With the departments of Belles Lettres and of Méthodes alone am I satisfied in their present form, and I do not think that any better arrangement of Miscellanea has occurred to me than that which terminates these volumes, unsatisfactory as such a section must necessarily be. An attempt to save space in the Part devoted to Periodical Publications has produced a chaos which is only capable of unravelment by the assistance of the Indexes. These faults, of which I am painfully conscious, I have endeavoured to retrieve by means of the Indexes, which are intended to serve for preliminary reference; it will be readily seen that with their aid any work in the

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