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How to Make a Violin, and Violin Notes by Ole Bull. Revised edition., 1910
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1modelling. The same degree of obliquity and position relative to the foot of the bridge which it supports, will not answer equally well in all cases. But when the required conditions are fulfilled, the oblique bar does beyond doubt very greatly increase the depth and volume of tone, particularly of the lower strings. Mr. Bull spent many years in attempting to formulate the rules which govern this most perplexing part of the organism of the violin. His observations and experiments demonstrated to him the correctness of the oblique position; and though, as was his wont, he frankly owned to more failures than one, his instances of success illustrated by his Da Salo and many other instruments, bore most convincing witness to the truth of his theory."
3Ole Bull's own opinion on the matter is thus expressed in his "Violin Notes":
5"The principal object of the bar is to resist the pressure of the strings upon the top. All old violins require to be rebarred, owing to the height of the present musical
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