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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1but if we put the neck again in communication with the case, the intensity will be greatly increased. It is easy, then, to see from the preceding, the part played by the neck in a stringed instrument played on by a bow. In fact, in exciting the strings with the bow, at a short distance from the bridge, we cause the string to be deflected at the point where the bow is applied, and the curve thus produced is not symmetrical in the two halves of the length of the string, but the greatest deflection is at the point where the bow is applied, and this deflection is propagated as a wave along the string, and is reflected on arriving at the nut, returning to the bridge upon the opposite side of the axis of the string. These waves are continued without cessation at each oscillation of the string, and impinging upon the bridge cause therein a transversal movement. We can easily be assured of this fact, by using a long monochord, having a plate disposed as a bridge upon which sand is strewed.
3There are then three different sorts of movements in a violin; one in the direction of the length of the strings, one normal to the belly, and the third tangential; these three movements force the instrument to execute the greatest possible amount of oscillation.
5An experiment of M. Cagniard Latour confirms the explanation we have given of the movement propagated from end to end of the strings. We take a small rectangular piece of paper; by making two parallel cuts with a penknife in this paper, we can pass it along one of the strings. If we place this paper near the bridge, it will follow the direction of the bow,
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