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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1instrument is better adapted for volume of tone. The Soorunga is a three stringed instrument, having the body and neck formed from a solid block of wood. The back of this instrument is very convex, being almost a semicircle, and is exquisitely hollowed out, whilst the neck is of a somewhat similar pattern to that of the violin, but instead of a scroll there are generally carvings of birds, &c., below, which are the pegs. The front of this instrument is entirely hollow, except near to the extreme end, where a small piece of parchment is stretched which forms the belly, upon which is placed the bridge sustaining the three strings which are united to a tail-piece as in the ordinary violin. Part of the convex sides are cut away in graceful curves, whilst upon the surface of the back a few variegated figures are carved. The Tarau or Thro of the same country is of an elongated form, somewhat resembling the common violin, having three strings and a finger-board carved in wood or ivory. The Koba is an instrument somewhat analogous to the former, and having two horse hair strings. The Mono-chord, or single stringed violin, is common throughout Egypt, but the ancient Egyptians appear to have been acquainted with a two stringed instrument at a very early date, as Graham, in his account of the first Edinburgh Musical Festival relates, that upon an Egyptian obelisk brought to Rome by Augustus, and which was supposed to have been originally erected at Heliopolis by Sesostris, four centuries previous to the Trojan war, is a representation of an instrument twenty-one inches in length, having a neck and two strings, and an
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