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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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1CHAPTER XXIII.
3The Violoncello.
5French, Violoncelle. German, Violoncell.
6Italian, Violoncello.
8This instrument belongs to the violin family, and is constructed on the same principles, but much larger. On account of its size, it is either held between the performer's knees, or it is made to rest on the floor by means of a foot or spike, the fingerboard pointing towards the left shoulder.
10Production of Sound. The sounds are produced in the same manner as on the violin, but the fingering is much more difficult; for the high register, shortening the strings by means of the thumb is resorted to. The thumb of the left hand is firmly placed horizontally across the string at the note over which the sign or is placed, and the four fingers then stop the notes in the usual manner. The thumb notes are of a thinner and less agreeable quality than the others, and except with first-rate performers very difficult to obtain absolutely true and even in tone.
12Harmonics, natural and artificial, are produced as on the violin, excepting that in the latter kind, instead of the first finger, the thumb is used to stop the string, the other fingers touching the nodal points.
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