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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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1Viola Bastarda, (iii) Viola di Gamba, (iv) Viola Bardone (or Baryton) (v) Viola d'Amore, (vi) Viola di Spalla, (vii) Viola Pomposa, (viii) Trompeten Geige (or Trumpet-marine), with more complete essays on the Violin, 'the Violoncello, the Contra-bass in turn, concluding with an essay entitled "Das Nurnberger Geigen- oder Gamben-werk," dealing with the Nuremberg school of violin-makers from 1600 to the present century. The second extract is one of the best descriptions known to me of the actual processes, and principles of construction of bow-instruments. It is excellently divided into (i) Construction der Geigen, (ii) Von den Tonverhältnissen der Intervallen, (iii) Praktischer Bau der Geigeninstrumente, (iv) Verfertigung der Darnsaiten, (v) Ueber Behandlung, Erhaltung und Beurtheilung der Geigen, (vi) Colophonium. Both sections of this great work are amply and excellently illustrated, and leave nothing to be desired by the student of "Tone-implements."
3287. WELCKER [VON GONTERSHAUSEN], Heinrich.
5Ueber den Bau der Saiteninstrumente und deren Akustik, nebst Uebersicht der Entstehung, und Verbesserung der Orgel.
7Frankfurt a/M., 1870. Chr. Winter.
8Pp. 53-106. Theorie des Geigenbaues.
9Technik der Geigen, Harfen, Cithern, und Guitarren.
10Geschichte der Geigeninstrumente.
12This is one of the most important extracts known to me concerning bow-instruments. It commences with a theoretical excursus on the quatuor, which is highly scientific and erudite. This leads to a section dealing with the technics of violin-making, etc., with notes on the Viola, Violoncello and Double-bass. This is followed by an essay on the bow, and upon rosin. The section concludes with a sketch of the history of
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