Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 8

How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892

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1JOACHIM says, "Contains many useful hints about Violin Playing."—(July 1887.)
3HOW TO PLAY THE FIDDLE,
4OR
5Hints to Beginners on the Violin,
6BY
7HENRY WILLIAM GRESSWELL
8AND GEORGE GRESSWELL,
10"In all things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron if you give him a hammer—not so well as a smith but tolerably; and make a box, though a clumsy one; but give him a fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing"—DR. JOHNSON.
12FOURTH EDITION,
13Revised and Corrected.
15LONDON:
16WILLIAM REEVES, 185, FLEET ST., E.C.
18ONE SHILLING.

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