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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1ished instruments. The artist devoted his lifetime to his labours; he found the shape and thickness he designed in ripened experience gave him the desired excellence, and thus the beauty he sought he won. If we hold a vibrating tuning fork over the f holes of the violin, as we pass it over the hole, we will hear the tone swell louder from the resonance of the mass of air within; and if we use three forks, as C, G, A, one or other will be more reinforced, it ought to be C of course, next to that G strongest and A least, and so on with the other notes, or if we use pitch pipes, we merely have to blow across or into the holes. The violoncello responds best to F, so that from the instrument the tones nearest related to the F, as tonic, would always sound the fullest, same with all instruments, certain notes have a predominance of brightness or of sonority. In testing the resonant mass of air in the violin, we may either adopt the method employed by Savart, viz., the conical tube, or by the following method:—Professor Helmholtz has invented a series of glass tubes which are made to correspond to every note of the scale. They consist of glass globes, or very wide glass tubes, with an opening at each end, one being smaller than the other. The smaller opening is to be covered with heated wax, and an impression of the ear taken whilst the wax is soft, when by this means the tube will be found to fit the ear very accurately. They possess the property of intensifying and resounding the same sounds as are derived by blowing across the widest opening, being the note to which they correspond. When one of
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