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The Instruments of the Modern Orchestra and Early Records of the Precursors of the Violin Family, in Two Volumes, Vol. I- Modern Orchestral Instruments, 1910
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1(a) The stick, made of Pernambuco wood, which alone combines the requisite lightness and power of resistance; it is bent by heat till it is slightly convex to the hair. (b) The screw or ferrule at the extremity of the stick held by the hand, which is the means of tightening or loosening the hair of the bow. This screw, about 3½ inches long, hidden within the stick, runs through the eye of another little screw at right angles to it, which is firmly imbedded in the nut. (c) The nut slides up and down in answer to the screw along the stick, and contains a little cavity or chamber into which the knotted end of the hair is firmly fixed by means of a little wedge, and then flattened into a ribbon by means of a ferrule. (d) The hair outside the nut is still further protected by a little mother-of-pearl slide. The hair is carefully chosen from the best white horsehair, and each of the 150 or 200, composing the half-inch wide ribbon of each bow, must be perfectly cylindrical and smooth. The head of the bow (g) is cut in one piece with the stick, and is fitted with a chamber and wedge contrivance similar to that of the nut, and in it the other end of the hair is immovably fixed.
3Production of Sound. Notes are produced in various ways on the violin. 1. The open notes by drawing the bow (the edge of the horsehair held at right angles to the strings), backwards and forwards between the bridge and the fingerboard, thus setting the strings in vibration; the names of the open strings are 1, E; 2, A; 3, D; 4, G.
52. Every other chromatic and diatonic succession of notes is obtained by using the bow as above, and in addition, pressing one of the strings against the fingerboard, with one of the four fingers of the left hand, according to the
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