Books › Old violins and violin lore. Famous makers of Cremona and Brescia, and of England, France, and Germany (with biographical dictionary); famous players; and chapters on varnish, strings and bows (1893)
Old violins and violin lore. Famous makers of Cremona and Brescia, and of England, France, and Germany (with biographical dictionary); famous players; and chapters on varnish, strings and bows
1893.
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| 11 | CONTENTS. | Read | |
| 13 | 7 | OLD VIOLINS | Read |
| 14 | 8 | Next I observe that the violin possesses… | Read |
| 15 | 9 | Has it ever occurred to you, my reader,… | Read |
| 16 | 10 | in the sixties. I never heard anything s… | Read |
| 17 | 11 | finger-tips and wed their subtle pressur… | Read |
| 18 | 12 | market or are picked up briskly by the g… | Read |
| 19 | 13 | belly, which to his eyes are alive with… | Read |
| 20 | 14 | nay, even when cut up and dismembered, i… | Read |
| 21 | 15 | CHAPTER I. | Read |
| 22 | 16 | without ever elaborating the idea in an… | Read |
| 23 | 17 | rough image on the vase, but the fact th… | Read |
| 24 | which I mean the violin tenor, violoncel… | Read | |
| 26 | PLATE I (to face page 19) | Read | |
| 27 | 19 | Duiffoprugcar (hung and labelled in the… | Read |
| 28 | 20 | But in the early days of violin genesis… | Read |
| 30 | 22 | CHAPTER II. | Read |
| 31 | 23 | but the sweet and subtly compounded soun… | Read |
| 32 | 24 | of about a hundredweight upon the belly,… | Read |
| 33 | 25 | towards the middle, but how thick or how… | Read |
| 34 | 26 | head. But any blundering with a sound-ba… | Read |
| 35 | 27 | manage to produce with our extended comp… | Read |
| 36 | 28 | any other of its appendages. It is so sq… | Read |
| 37 | 29 | but it does not much matter what it is m… | Read |
| 38 | 30 | CHAPTER III. | Read |
| 39 | 31 | Garda, in the province of Brescia, and a… | Read |
| 40 | 32 | bass, may still be seen at the South Ken… | Read |
| 41 | 33 | to have affected, either at Brescia or a… | Read |
| 42 | 34 | information which enable us to show him… | Read |
| 43 | 35 | VIOLINS AT BRESCIA | Read |
| 44 | 36 | The heads look rough, because, with the… | Read |
| 45 | 37 | wood as in the Amatis; the art of wood s… | Read |
| 46 | the rough tooth of the well-known Bresci… | Read | |
| 47 | PLATE II (to face page 39) | Read | |
| 49 | 39 | brown into orange and golden yellow, as… | Read |
| 53 | 43 | of the Amati, Stradivari, and Guarnerii,… | Read |
| 54 | 44 | The confusion has arisen from confoundin… | Read |
| 55 | 45 | the later Amatis have a tendency to reve… | Read |
| 56 | 46 | school far behind. The double purfling o… | Read |
| 57 | 47 | with rounded bellies, powerful Dukes and… | Read |
| 58 | 48 | quite out of date. There could have been… | Read |
| 59 | 49 | Nicolo and signed the register; and by t… | Read |
| 60 | Bulley's violoncello, a Jerome (the youn… | Read | |
| 62 | PLATE III (to face page 50) | Read | |
| 63 | 51 | VIOLINS AT CREMONA | Read |