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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1No. 5533, by Eugene du Mesnil; 1845, June 12, No. 10,719, by Robert Brooks; 1854, January 11, No. 65, by Daniel Semple; and on August 8, No. 1738, by Antoine Corvi; in 1856, September 19, No. 2195, by William John Bisseker; in 1858, May 16, No. 1217, by John Jones; and in 1867, January 25, No. 198, by William Pain.
3About the commencement of the present century, a violin maker in the south of Scotland (Sinclair), exhibited a number of violins, or rather boxes, of his own production, having extraordinary peculiarities of construction. Some were of the ordinary size, but the outline almost triangular, others of smaller dimensions; one had twelve vibrating wires stretched across it, and tuned to correspond to the tones and semitones of the scale; in addition to the ordinary strings for the purpose of augmenting the tone of the bowed strings by vibration, whilst another had two bridges, one being so much higher than the other, as to allow a free passage for the bow to pass, and play upon either set of strings. Other fanciful artists have doubled each string, and tuned in unison, or in octaves, purposing thereby to augment and enrich the tone.
5Another Scottish maker, a few years later, formed another fantastic "double breasted" instrument with common sides and two necks, separated by an opening for the hand of the player, with a duplicate set of strings, but having only a single enlarged back, which corresponded with both breasts, somewhat resembling a double violin. This violin, as might be expected, produced loudness of tone, consequent from its in-
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