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Scan 69
The violin : how to choose one, 1893
10 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 65. See the scan on archive.org.
1Now, affix the cramp as near to the tail piece as it will go,
3and bow the cramp, and we get E and A, thus—
5These notes have the same timbre as if they came from the strings. Now, why have we such a sameness in these notes?—whence do they come? I fancy I hear some one answer, "Oh, there is nothing in that, they vary so." But wait and see how in those very variations there is a grand harmony. We now unstring the violin, and in our search take off the breast, and see what sounds it gives out now.
7We dispense with the cramp, and bow strongly across the edge of the sides—first in the centre of the upper bout, and we get these notes—E, E, and G sharp thus—
9Surely a great change in position, yet still the sameness! Here let me state that in a new violin the higher tones come most easily, the lower octaves by pressure; in an old violin the reverse is the case. Now, with the ribs still on the back, bow the edge of the ribs in the centre of the lower bout, and the note produced is B flat, thus—
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