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Die Geigenmacher der alten italienischen Schule: Eine Uebersicht aller …, 1877
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1When brought to Europe its possibilities attracted the attention of the leading musicians and instrument makers, and they at once saw the need for improvements.
3It is no exaggeration to say that the development of the wonderful bow instruments of the past, to say nothing of the delightful family we now possess, was stimulated by the bow, rather than was the bow by them.
5One of the capital faults of the primitive bow was the great distance between the hair and the stick. (This reaches its maximum in the middle of the bow). (See Fig. 1). To lessen this distance was the guiding principle in the development of the bow.
7The improvement in the bow began by straightening the lower part of the stick. When this was done, the hair could no longer be attached directly to the stick, as seen in Fig. 1. The difficulty was overcome by fixing something like a bridge to which the hair could be fastened (see Fig. 2). This marked the first step in the development of the bow.
9Next the upper part of the stick was straightened; not, however, to its full extent. Here again, a similar difficulty of attaching the hair to the stick arose, which necessitated the making use of a head (see Fig. 3).
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