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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:

London: R. Cocks and co., 1864.

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9 NOTICE Read
13 EDITOR'S PREFACE. Read
15 AUTHOR'S PREFACE. Read
19 INTRODUCTION. Read
20 By what progressive causes was it develo… Read
21 TO VIOLINISTS. Read
22 STANDARD WORKS ON THE VIOLIN. Read
23 HISTORICAL RESEARCHES Read
24 harmony in many parts. These conjectures… Read
25 simple form in which it could appear, an… Read
26 head of the bow, at the first knot, for… Read
27 the two instruments before mentioned bel… Read
28 the strings rest. The bridge, over which… Read
29 ence being that these openings are small… Read
30 8 sycamore fig-tree (figuier-sycomore), wo… Read
31 9 does not appertain to music, properly sp… Read
32 10 viol already brought to perfection, and… Read
33 11 The Saxons took possession of a part of… Read
34 12 cruisigh (music), which is itself derive… Read
35 13 stations in order to disperse themselves… Read
36 14 idea of a sonorous chest, consisting of… Read
37 15 but two strings; as was the case, long a… Read
38 16 The instrument is known by the opening t… Read
39 17 of the crouth. M. Coussemaker has done m… Read
40 18 harmony.* The admirable construction of… Read
41 19 28 centimètres [11.023 in.]*. Of the six… Read
42 20 part of the instrument is the bridge: we… Read
43 21 right, the left foot has a length of abo… Read
46 24 From the drawing given by Daines Barring… Read
47 25 and by the troubadours, must be synonymo… Read
48 26 eighth century, and perished in accompli… Read
49 27 of the ninth century, and an engraving o… Read
50 28 proves that it was an instrument of the… Read
51 29 which is no other than the krouz or rote… Read
52 30 Fig. 3. Read
53 31 The acute instrument of the same species… Read
54 32 was frequently superseded by the monocho… Read
55 33 Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt, belongs to mu… Read
56 34 Many viols of the thirteenth century hav… Read
57 35 on the ancient gateway of the Abbey of S… Read
58 36 library). However, at the same period, t… Read
59 37 the figures published by Agricola and by… Read
60 38 viols became instruments of fixed sounds… Read
61 39 in order that the bow might not touch al… Read
62 40 with this difference, however, that the… Read
63 41 is presented to us by Mersenne, in his H… Read
64 42 Thus, as we see, these instruments are a… Read
65 43 This is, indeed, the real compass of the… Read
66 44 neck of the viol; the finger-board is di… Read
67 45 VIOLIN MAKERS OF THE ITALIAN SCHOOLS Read
68 46 species of Geige with four strings, whic… Read
69 47 by different amateurs in Paris until the… Read
70 48 called because he was born in the little… Read
71 49 layers (sur couche).* The varnish, which… Read
72 50 But such is not the case with those of M… Read
73 51 or rebec with three strings, which exist… Read
74 52 and guitars—all these instruments, which… Read
75 53 it probably occurred about 1580: because… Read
76 54 delicate, and sweet tone which is their… Read
77 55 the curves, and produced a varnish more… Read
78 56 and the illustrious Anthony Stradivari o… Read
79 57 The labours of Gaspard di Salo, John Pau… Read
80 58 contour and fine proportions—its corresp… Read
81 59 them, and on the other it leaves no trac… Read
82 60 Venetians, took care to select wood with… Read
83 61 ANTHONY STRADIVARIUS. Read
84 62 exists in the suppressed Church of St. A… Read
85 63 appears a violin of Stradivarius, having… Read
86 64 that period to 1725 the instruments whic… Read
87 65 throughout this period of his productive… Read
88 66 impairs the clearness of the sound; the… Read
89 67 to silvery mellowness. The violoncello o… Read
90 68 Two things are equally worthy of attenti… Read
91 69 "Finalmente nello stesso volume a pag. c… Read
92 70 been finally crowned with success, and h… Read
93 71 Anthony Stradivarius had been married an… Read
94 72 uneventful existence. Polledro, late fir… Read
95 73 especially of the effect of time upon th… Read
96 74 produced from a violin or a bass until a… Read
97 75 discovered these laws? Unquestionably, n… Read
98 76 problem of the laws by which the best po… Read
99 77 them, to determine the laws which (even… Read
100 78 method was adopted by Stradivarius; inde… Read
101 79 was seen to divide itself into two paral… Read
102 80 him to judge beforehand of the intonatio… Read
103 81 same dimensions, and if we cause them to… Read
104 82 a maple back was then substituted for th… Read
105 83 difference between them. The back was ex… Read
106 84 and thin; if it be too little, the grave… Read
107 85 It will perhaps be asked whether Stradiv… Read
108 86 care which this great artist took to est… Read
109 87 thick, the emission of the sounds will b… Read
110 88 of Stradivarius and Guarnerius for the h… Read
111 89 If a new experiment were now made to asc… Read
112 90 to a viol with seven strings, the body o… Read
113 91 Anthony Amati (Fig. 3), the other having… Read
114 92 minutest care, have demonstrated that an… Read
115 93 early in June, 1742, and was interred on… Read
116 94 Among the Italian violin makers of the t… Read