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Scan 16
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1combine to reinforce the tones of the string.
3The tables of the instrument, however, are neither symmetrical* nor homogeneous; they do not act independently, but as component parts of a still less symmetrical and still less homogeneous whole; added to which the instrument is subject to an extremely intricate system of stresses which play their part in the distribution of the nodes
5* The tables themselves are of course symmetrical about the longitudinal axis of the instrument; but the symmetry of their modes of vibration is destroyed by the bass-bar, the eccentric position of the sound-post, and the unequal action of the two feet of the bridge.
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