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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1these instruments in harmony with the violins and basses.
3Contre Bass.—The foregoing observations will apply also to the contre-bass, the construction of which has hitherto been altogether arbitrary. The contre-bass gives sounds an octave below those of the violoncello, and the mass of air should therefore be the fa below that of the 'cello. But as the instrument carries only three strings, the lowest being sol instead of do, perhaps the sound of the air should not be so low. It is a point, however, to be settled only by experience.
5CHAPTER IV.
7REMARKS UPON THE FOREGOING THEORIES OF SAVART RELATIVE TO THE VIOLIN.
9THE reader having carefully perused the preceding pages, let us examine how much positive instruction is to be derived from them. We must carefully take into account, however, that the papers in the "L'Institut" are merely reports of what Savart stated verbally in his lectures, and it must be understood that the matter would have been stated far more clearly had the papers received his revision, or proceeded from the pen of the philosopher himself. For my own part I cannot regard the universally received idea, that the sound-post is intended as a means of communication between back and belly otherwise than a popular error, and the more I think of it the more it seems to
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