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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1nearest resemblance to the violin proper. Let us rapidly glance over some of the foregoing instruments, whereby we may trace a slight similitude to that of the Violin. The Ravanastron and Rouana are constructed almost precisely similar, both being formed of a wooden cylinder, over one end of which a piece of skin or thin wood is fixed, serving as a sounding board, upon which is placed a small bridge, whilst attached crossways to the wooden tube is a handle containing two pegs for retaining the two strings of this primitive instrument. The Urh-heen, or Chinese Fiddle, is constructed with a cylindrical body, over which is stretched a piece of snake's skin, upon which rests a bridge, over which four strings are stretched, terminating in the pegs which are inserted in a line in the longitudinal and cylindrical hand of the instrument. The Omerti is a somewhat similarly constructed instrument; but having a body formed from the shell of the cocoa-nut, part of which is removed and replaced by skin or wood to form the belly of the instrument, whilst holes of fantastic shape are cut through the body of the shell, forming a communication with the internal air. This also is a two stringed instrument, as well as the Kemangeh a gous of the Arabs, which is of the same form and construction. The Rebab and Goudok are somewhat similar, but each having four sides upon the under and upper edges of which pieces of skin are stretched to form the back and breast. The Goudok is of a more advanced construction than the Rebab, possessing a curved head, tail-piece, finger-board, and sounding holes in the breast, whilst the body of this
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