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Scan 68
The violin : how to choose one, 1893
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1make one with a bad tone if they keep to these notes. They must not vary above or below even a quarter of a tone. It is a grand thing when a maker knows that he is getting the best tone that is in the wood.
3The violin maker must first provide himself with a stout bow, such as teachers of natural philosophy use in the experiment with a plate of metal or glass and sprinkled sand to show the sphere of vibration. A double bass bow does very well. This bow is our callipers. Suppose now we have a Guarnerius violin, a great Joseph; let us hear its message. We affix a violin cramp in the centre of the upper bout thus—
5Bow the point of the cramp strongly, and we get these notes, G sharp—E—and A—
7Now, we cramp the lower bout at Fig. 2, bow again, and we get these notes—G sharp and A—
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