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Scan 121
Musical instruments, 1875
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 109. See the scan on archive.org.
1five, and it was tuned in various ways. One kind had a string
3tuned to the note running at the side of the finger-board instead of over it; this string was, therefore, only capable of producing a single tone. The four other strings were tuned thus: Two other species, on which all the strings were placed over the finger-board, were tuned: and:
5The woodcut above represents a very beautiful vielle; French, of about 1550, with monograms of Henry II. This is at South Kensington.
7The contrivance of placing a string or two at the side of the finger-board is evidently very old, and was also gradually adopted on other instruments of the violin class of a somewhat later period than that of the vielle; for instance, on the lira di braccio of the Italians. It was likewise adopted on the lute, to obtain a fuller power in the bass; and hence arose the theorbo, the archlute, and other varieties of the old lute.
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