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Notes on the Construction of the Violin
Walter Bulkeley Coventry. Dulau, 1902.
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| 1 | This is a digital copy of a book that wa… | Read | |
| 2 | FROM THE LIBRARY OF | Read | |
| 13 | PREFACE | Read | |
| 14 | with the laws of acoustics, but we are l… | Read | |
| 15 | Preface | Read | |
| 16 | combine to reinforce the tones of the st… | Read | |
| 17 | which are formed throughout the instrume… | Read | |
| 18 | ples of the seventeenth-century model; b… | Read | |
| 21 | Notes on the Construction of the Violin | Read | |
| 22 | the superiority of these old instruments… | Read | |
| 23 | tury ago the results of Savart's investi… | Read | |
| 24 | … can possibly deny that these new ins… | Read | |
| 25 | find the superiority of tone which disti… | Read | |
| 26 | That even Stradivari should have possess… | Read | |
| 27 | of the Violin | Read | |
| 28 | some cause—the elasticity of the materia… | Read | |
| 29 | of the Violin | Read | |
| 30 | extraordinary variety of model and dimen… | Read | |
| 31 | spicuous by any marked excellence in thi… | Read | |
| 32 | from the pitch or intensity of the conso… | Read | |
| 33 | locality whence this wood was obtained s… | Read | |
| 34 | countries) small areas of land—in some c… | Read | |
| 35 | the analogy too far, it seems admissible… | Read | |
| 36 | difference in the soil of these patches… | Read | |
| 37 | tobacco plant admit of a succession of c… | Read | |
| 38 | have been suggested as a possible cause… | Read | |
| 39 | was found to make a good-toned instrumen… | Read | |
| 40 | ments. He might otherwise have been led… | Read | |
| 41 | the physical character of the wood. This… | Read | |
| 42 | singularly capable of responding to the… | Read | |
| 43 | instrument was almost exactly its weight… | Read | |
| 44 | A noted authority on the violin has rema… | Read | |
| 45 | corner." From the mechanical point of vi… | Read | |
| 46 | veloped by the vibration of constant use… | Read | |
| 47 | recovery after strain. Carried sufficien… | Read | |
| 48 | keenly intent on the laws of quantity ra… | Read | |
| 49 | methods than the early Italian makers. | Read | |
| 50 | at points about one-fourth of their leng… | Read | |
| 51 | that three rods of pine and two rods of… | Read | |
| 52 | piece of sycamore, of the usual form sol… | Read | |
| 53 | for the pine 669 vibrations and for the… | Read | |
| 54 | about a semi-tone below the note given b… | Read | |
| 55 | of the Violin | Read | |
| 56 | clusions. Amongst others he formulated t… | Read | |
| 57 | ferred to all other woods for the table… | Read | |
| 58 | gards elasticity and resistance to flexu… | Read | |
| 59 | flexure), and the density, may be—and in… | Read | |
| 60 | not having the proper absolute values of… | Read |