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Georg Gemünder’s Progress In Violin Making 1881
1881.
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| 6 | A TREATISE | Read | |
| 8 | AUTHOR'S PREFACE. | Read | |
| 9 | most of the good Italian violins, and th… | Read | |
| 10 | TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. | Read | |
| 11 | PREFACE. | Read | |
| 12 | CONTENTS. | Read | |
| 14 | A TREATISE ON THE VIOLIN. | Read | |
| 15 | Now, though all these are not indispensa… | Read | |
| 19 | CHAPTER II. | Read | |
| 20 | it to the negligence or unskilfulness of… | Read | |
| 21 | they have, however, a peculiar model, wh… | Read | |
| 22 | Martin Hoffmann, of Leipzig, who is chie… | Read | |
| 23 | of his instruments, many of which have b… | Read | |
| 24 | Bachmann, of Berlin, was one of the most… | Read | |
| 25 | without paying too great a regard to the… | Read | |
| 26 | name; which, as he followed his father's… | Read | |
| 30 | These are the proportions best adapted f… | Read | |
| 31 | do not extend far beyond them at the bac… | Read | |
| 32 | very fine, the fibres are perfectly equi… | Read | |
| 33 | father's,* except that he was not so par… | Read | |
| 34 | excellent, and almost preferable to a St… | Read | |
| 35 | of age, and in no respect detrimental to… | Read | |
| 36 | none but what are higher. Their shape is… | Read | |
| 37 | The violins of Joseph Guarnerius are ver… | Read | |
| 38 | narrower than in the Cremonese (in which… | Read | |
| 39 | genuine instruments and the imitations,… | Read | |
| 40 | Statelmann, of Vienna, and Withalm, of N… | Read | |
| 41 | my professional travels, I have had only… | Read | |
| 42 | During the last ten years, a great numbe… | Read | |
| 43 | CHAPTER IV. | Read | |
| 44 | The same difficulty in bringing out the… | Read | |
| 45 | the instrument, but for promoting the vi… | Read | |
| 46 | The irregular vibrations are most clearl… | Read | |
| 47 | every year. The rounding of the finger-b… | Read | |
| 48 | so adjusted, that the strings, in approa… | Read | |
| 49 | The bridge is one of the most important… | Read | |
| 50 | fall considerably, the neck must be set… | Read | |
| 51 | depends. I have myself remedied many gla… | Read | |
| 52 | and violoncellos, these being constructe… | Read | |
| 53 | hand; whilst this is really the greatest… | Read | |
| 54 | Persons of the above description spoil i… | Read | |
| 55 | a slight fault in a good instrument, tha… | Read | |
| 56 | putting the instrument away in the case;… | Read | |
| 57 | mention the characteristics of the best… | Read | |
| 58 | certainly made it harder; but, as it bec… | Read | |
| 59 | As good instruments are constantly becom… | Read | |
| 60 | which a further account will appear in t… | Read | |
| 61 | finishing and arrangement (Aptirung), an… | Read | |
| 62 | sense of duty to my children, and shall… | Read | |
| 63 | but, by persevering in the practice of t… | Read |