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Scan 339
Musical instruments, 1908
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1shoulder, brought down with rapid circular motion, and immediately raised again.
3Valga — See wambee.
4Valiha — See marouvane.
5Valved Horn — See French horn.
6Valved Trombone — See trombone.
7Valved Trumpet — See trumpet.
8Vielle — An original form of the violin. Later the name was applied to the hurdy gurdy by the French.
9Vina — Plucked Strings. India. A stringed instrument bearing some resemblance to the mandolin or guitar and played with the finger nails. There are seven strings, four passing over frets, and three at the side to mark the time. The neck rests on a gourd near its head. The tone is rather thin but curiously soft and plaintive.
11Viol — Bowed Strings. Europe. The treble viol was the immediate predecessor of the violin. It was one of a family of obsolete instruments with which the bow was used. They appear with distinctive qualities about the Fifteenth Century. Previous to that they were in a process of evolution from the rebab or rebec, and had no inherent qualities. They had sloping shoulders and flat backs that were strengthened with heavy cross-pieces that took away much of the power of vibration.
13The necks were fretted as are those of the guitar. Sometimes the frets were detachable and the performer put them in place when he desired to use the instrument. The waist of the viols was broad and the inward curves shallow. The bridge was made high in an effort to raise the strings so that the bow would not touch more than one string at a time. When held at an angle necessary to touching some of the strings, it was in danger of rubbing against the side of the body. The sound holes were not ff shaped, but are known as flaming swords, and were merely slanting openings with an irregular outline. Consequently they could not do what the ff holes are designed to do, divide the fibers of the belly into the correct number of long and short parts, as to
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