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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1upon the subject with his Lordship, he, like many others, either refused to reply, or perhaps willingly forgot. Can those people imagine that the publication of such particulars would tarnish their names, or confer a permanent blot upon their reputation, by being owners of such chef d'oeuvres of ancient art? It may be so, and if such is the case, "the more's the pity" that valuable instruments should be in the possession of such parties.
3CHAPTER IX.
5THE BOW, THE ROSIN, AND THE STRINGS.
7THE BOW, that apparently simple and trifling rod which many doubtless consider as unworthy of devoting time and space to, will be found, nevertheless, to possess certain claims upon the amateur's attention which will be well worthy of his earnest notice. In a treatise in which the construction of the violin is initially delineated, it would be considered quite unpardonable to omit all notice of its appendage, the bow—that mysterious assistant, by the combined use of which the artist excites us at one time to bestir ourselves to the lively strathspey or reel, and at another to place us, as it were, in an ethereal and harmonious world of delights, forgetting our existence for a time upon this sublunary
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