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Scan 15
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1Preface
3material of the plate; but if to these natural vibrations, whose rate for any given mode of vibration is independent of the manner in which they are generated, we add others of a compulsory order —such, for example, as those communicated by the violin string, and whose rate depends only on the rate of the string—the resultant vibrations may become extremely complicated.
5Such appears to be the case with the violin. The vibration of the string, besides communicating to the instrument its own rate of vibration, also excites the natural vibrations of the various component parts of the instrument, and the two orders of vibrations
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