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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1THE BASS-BAR.—The bass-bar is 36 parts long, 1 in breadth, and 2 parts thick in the centre, and this thickness must gradually diminish to two-thirds of a part at the ends. The bar should run parallel with the joint, having its centre opposite the point 40. Its proper place is exactly on the margin of the interior circle.
3THE SOUND-POST.—The sound-post must be 1 part in diameter, its place should be two parts behind the right foot of the bridge.
5THE BRIDGE.—The bridge should be 8 parts wide and 6 1/2 parts in height. The present description answers equally to the violoncello and double-bass, if we assume the sides of those to be 12 parts broad at the button, diminishing to 11 1/2 at the neck, and the bridge to be 12 parts in height.
7CHAPTER VII.
9DESCRIPTION OF SAVART'S BOX FIDDLE.
11IN describing this instrument, it may be as well to follow some of the illustrious Savart's experiments, by which he was led to adopt the following form and construction of the instrument:—It must not be supposed that M. Savart, subsequently to the formation of this style of instrument, considered it as of a superior quality from its form and change of construction to those of the old makers; on the contrary, a few years after this, the renowned skill and pre-eminent adjust-
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