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Musical instruments, 1925
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1Meyerbeer's Huguenots. Its peculiarity consists in the series of parallel strings beneath the fingerboard that vibrate in sympathy when the outer strings are played. Its seven strings are tuned to produce the following tones:
3It is obvious that the composer cannot stray far from the D-major triad if he hopes for sympathetic vibrations.
5In my student days I attended a concert of the celebrated Professor Hermann Ritter, who demonstrated the characteristics of his improved Viola, which was specially designed for use at the Bayreuth Festival of 1876. This Viola, tuned like that in our orchestras, was intended to remedy the weakness of this instrument. The Ritter Viola possessed indeed a strong tone, stronger than that of the old design, but its size was so increased that only men with long arms could master it, and it soon fell into disuse.
7In the collection of musical instruments in the former Royal High School of Music in Berlin, was to be seen the Baryton that once belonged to Haydn. This instrument was one of the Violin family, and its range was between that of the Viola and the 'Cello, but in spite of its popularity in the eighteenth century, it is now practically unknown.
9DYNAMICS
11By a judicious modification of the pressure of the bow upon the strings of any member of the Violin
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