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The heart of music : the story of the violin, 1906
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1(sometimes called viol even then!) and to sing soft songs to the fair ladies of their choice.
3The bridge, of course, in primitive forms had existed since the days of early Greeks and doubtless had come to them from the East. But the bridge which the English gleemen placed upon the crwth is said by most authorities to have been a singularly good one. Moreover it was in the crwth that those two important and essential things, the sound-post and the bass bar, were first introduced. The latter appeared first. It was found as the belly of the crwth was made of thinner and finer wood, and the tension of the strings increased to meet the new demands for resonance, that the weight of the strings, tuned as tightly as they were, tended to bend and even to crush the belly of the instrument. So a strip of wood was inserted just under the C string, a long and narrow bar which acted as a support and strengthener to the whole fiddle front. This led to the introduction of the sound-post, which the French call "l'aime" or "soul," and the Germans "stimme" or "voice," of the violin. The bass bar supported one side of the instrument only, the sound-post was put in to strengthen the other side. The right leg of the bridge was simply elongated down through the body of the
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