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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:, 1864
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1the two instruments before mentioned belongs the omerti, another bow-instrument, mounted with two strings, and which evinces some progress in the art of manufacture. The body is made of a cocoa-nut shell, one-third being first cut away, and after reducing its thickness to 2 millimètres [.079 in.], it is then polished inside and out. Four elliptical openings, and another of a lozenge form, are cut in the front part of the body, to serve as sound-holes. I possess two of these instruments; in one of them the sound-board is formed of a piece of Gazelle skin, well prepared and very smooth; in the other it consists of a veneer of satin-wood, extremely fine in the grain, and 1 millimètre [.03937 in.] thick. In both instruments, the size of this sound-board at its greatest diameter is 0m,05,15 [2.027 in.]. As in the ravanastron and the rouana, the neck is formed of a shank of deal (red wood of India), which passes through the body of the instrument. The lower part is rounded, and a hole is bored longitudinally at the bottom, to receive a pin, ending in a knob or button, as in the rouana. This button is a little cube, having a hole in it where the strings are fastened. The upper part of the neck is flat, and terminates in a head turned back and finished off at right angles with the neck. The pegs are not placed upon this head, but both are inserted on the left of the neck, and a longitudinal opening is made through the head, 6 centimètres [2.362 in.] in length, and 12 millimètres [.472 in.] wide, for passing the strings into the holes of the pegs: this is a rude commencement of the scroll. Lastly, at the lower end of the opening is a little ivory nut, 1 millimètre [.03937 in.] in height, on which
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