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Scan 153
Musical instruments, 1925
6 lines. Read by computer on 21 September 2026. Printed page 139. See the scan on archive.org.
1for the performer is obliged to make his own scales, which involves a keener perception of pitch than is required where the tones are already at hand, as is the case with the Piano and Organ.
3Coincident with the training of the ear is the cultivation of the sense of touch. We read of certain dealers in textiles who acquire such acuteness of this faculty that by feeling a piece of silk or linen they can estimate the number of threads to the inch. A similar accuracy of space measurement is required of the violinist to enable him to calculate the smaller intervals upon the fingerboard, especially in the higher registers where they are quite minute.
5Taking the open strings as a starting point, the various scales are produced by shortening or stopping the strings with the tips of the fingers at various distances from the bridge. At a in the subjoined table we have the series of the first position; at b we have that of the second position. It will be seen that a "position" implies the series of consecutive tones that can be played by the fingers 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the left hand on the G, D, A and E strings, without shifting the place (position) of the left hand.
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