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Musical instruments, 1925
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1that are valued from $1,000 to $2,500 while fancy prices of $20,000 and upward are paid by connoisseurs.
3TUNING
5The Violin has four strings of gut, the lowest being wound with metal, usually silver. Of late metal strings have been tried. The traditional tuning is in fifths, and the strings are numbered from above downwards.
7Paganini and other great virtuosi have varied this tuning somewhat, usually by raising the pitch to secure greater brilliancy of tone. Saint-Saëns, on the contrary, in the score of his Danse Macabre requests the leading first violinist or concert-master to lower the upper string to Eb in order to suggest the grotesque fiddling of the Grim Reaper seated on a tombstone. (See No. 32).
9No. 32. Danse Macabre
10Allegro
11SAINT-SAËNS
13SCALE BUILDING
15In Chapter III mention was made of the fact that one of the chief differences between the Viol and Violin families consisted in the fact that whereas the former were provided with frets, or finger guides, the latter had none. This, as will be seen, exerted a significant influence upon the technique of the Violin,
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