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The varnishes of the Italian violin-makers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their influence on tone;
1904.
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| 1 | This is a digital copy of a book that wa… | Read | |
| 7 | PREFACE. | Read | |
| 8 | tion as to its composition; especially a… | Read | |
| 9 | If from the apologists for the old theor… | Read | |
| 10 | of the preparation of the varnishes; tha… | Read | |
| 11 | CONTENTS. | Read | |
| 12 | J. B. Vuillaume—Pre-eminence of Stradiva… | Read | |
| 13 | water and varnish; inconstancy of weight… | Read | |
| 14 | CHAPTER V. | Read | |
| 18 | at a point not very far from the nut, wh… | Read | |
| 19 | "belle couleur brun clair. Ce vernis est… | Read | |
| 20 | which it was spread was not perfectly se… | Read | |
| 21 | was soon formed among experts that the o… | Read | |
| 22 | old Italian instruments had been in my p… | Read | |
| 23 | from that of the skilful concoction of a… | Read | |
| 24 | be in a position to form a judgment on t… | Read | |
| 25 | CHAPTER II. | Read | |
| 26 | correctness of observation, we are indeb… | Read | |
| 27 | describes "the Brescian as mostly of a r… | Read | |
| 28 | "the markings of the wood with much dist… | Read | |
| 29 | "cases the lustre of the wood of the bac… | Read | |
| 30 | "réunit à la richesse des nuances toutes… | Read | |
| 31 | a basis varnish with gums of the proper… | Read | |
| 32 | "del Jesù, when it is examined attentive… | Read | |
| 33 | M. Mailand writes (9):—"We have already… | Read | |
| 34 | "that they (the violin-makers) could not… | Read | |
| 35 | "which explains to us why these also hav… | Read | |
| 36 | grasse" he dissolved his mastic and damm… | Read | |
| 37 | No. 3, "To make a liquid to be used to v… | Read | |
| 38 | Fioravanti, in the formula quoted as No.… | Read | |
| 39 | colouring varnishes may be estimated fro… | Read | |
| 40 | "As to the colours which they put into t… | Read | |
| 41 | "and aloes, which, it is said, has the p… | Read | |
| 42 | "themselves (se trouvant abandonnées à e… | Read | |
| 43 | (car on recherche en lutherie les bois l… | Read | |
| 44 | Either he neglected to make the observat… | Read | |
| 45 | way give a graphic idea of the movements… | Read | |
| 46 | "varnish on such instruments is of a ric… | Read | |
| 47 | Mr. Hill's description of refraction eff… | Read | |
| 48 | CHAPTER III. | Read | |
| 49 | "it remains in this virgin state, it bec… | Read | |
| 50 | will now respond to the most delicate vi… | Read | |
| 51 | will be found that not only did the varn… | Read | |
| 52 | "become acute or shrill (aigu) and meagr… | Read | |
| 53 | "because by penetrating them, it gives t… | Read | |
| 54 | apart from affinity, no reasonable time… | Read | |
| 55 | board), which has been made for some yea… | Read | |
| 56 | violin (i.e., one without finger-board,… | Read | |
| 57 | Having disposed of the question of clima… | Read | |
| 58 | may be one of the reasons for increase o… | Read | |
| 59 | of their parts in contact, in order that… | Read | |
| 60 | by the adhesion of parts of their membra… | Read | |
| 61 | slowly, forward-moving sheet of wire gau… | Read | |
| 62 | the characteristic changes in the struct… | Read | |
| 63 | less violent, will produce similar resul… | Read | |
| 64 | not be produced at first with the same f… | Read | |
| 65 | by means of a dry cloth or brush, a dull… | Read | |
| 66 | be gradations of absorption, constitutin… | Read | |
| 67 | retical conclusions. There seems to be n… | Read |