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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:, 1864

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1ence being that these openings are small, very numerous, and ranged symmetrically in the Arabian instrument. In this, as in the other, the belly or sound-board consists of fine skin glued to the edges of the cocoa-nut shell. The neck consists of a cylindrical shank of courbary wood, its lower part terminating in a large ivory ferrule. The length of this shank, from the body of the instrument to the commencement of the head, is 66 centimètres [25.984 in.]. The head, which is hollowed out for the two pegs, like that of the omerti, is made of a single piece of ivory, 20 centimètres long [7.874 in.]. The pegs are placed one on each side of the head, instead of being both on the left as in the Indian instrument. The shank is bored longitudinally, to receive an iron rod, which crosses the body of the instrument, and, instead of ending in a button, like the omerti, is extended outwards, to the length of 25 centimètres [9.842 in.], to form a foot. To this foot there is a hook, to which is fastened the ring which serves for a tail-piece. In the description of this instrument, Villoteau speaks of the finger-board*; but there is nothing like it on the kemângeh à gouz which is in my collection: the cylindrical neck itself serves for the finger-board†, as in the omerti. The strings are the most curious part of this instrument, each of them being formed of a hank of black hair highly stretched. The bow is composed of a rod of
3* Description historique, technique, et littéraire des instruments de musique des Orientaux, before mentioned.
4† Such also is the case in the representations of this instrument given in vol. ii of Lane's Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. Knight's small edit.—Tr.

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