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Scan 73
The violin : how to choose one, 1893
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 69. See the scan on archive.org.
1Now, let him cut the f holes from the best model he can get to copy. Let them be 1 1/2 inches apart between the upper turns, for part of their work is to deflect the vibrations from the back. Examine the notes now. With the F holes cut the breast gives F, D, C, G, E, D, thus—
3Here we see only these notes which are given at the lower end. This phenomenon is worth the violin maker's attention in toning the breast. Now, let him put on the bass bar. That brings the affected notes into line again, and we must reject the modern bass bar, going nearly the whole length of the violin, and put on one only 6 1/2 or 7 inches long, about 3/4 of an inch deep and 3/16 thick. This will be found to have sent up the notes again to about A, E, E flat, A, G, and E, thus—
5Observe, again, that it is the lower notes which are affected. Let him take more wood off the upper end of the bass bar, even to depress the lower notes, and get them to G, D, D, G, E, and D, thus—
7No. 8 will be found to have lost an octave since the f holes were cut, and No. 11 one tone. Nos. 5, 6, 11, and 12 are peculiarly sensitive. When No. 1 is B, thus—
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