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Die Geigenmacher der alten italienischen Schule: Eine Uebersicht aller …, 1877
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1such, marks a great advance in the primitive method of merely fastening the hair to the end of the stick. But further than this, by Professor Ostrovsky's invention, the Nut is now made to contribute to the quality of the tone and technique of the bow.
3To appreciate this, the new Nut has only to be tried, when its merits at once become apparent. With it, when the hair is placed on the string on the down stroke, all roughness, scratching and harshness disappear, and a greater smoothness and better tone is produced. Further, the effect is not confined to the nut end of the stroke only. The elasticity of the bow being distributed more equally throughout, the contact at any point between the hair and the string is of finer nature, and a corresponding improvement in tone and technique of the bow is the result, not to mention the greater facility and ease afforded to the player.
5The present solid nut does not yield to pressure. It has, therefore, no effect in the elasticity of the stick.
7When it is remembered how extremely essential it is to aid elasticity, one does not easily realise why the nut should have been allowed to remain a passive, unyielding block from its origin to the present time.
9The invention has turned the dead and solid block into a live and flexible nut, supplying sensitiveness
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