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Scan 75
The violin : how to choose one, 1893
12 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 71. See the scan on archive.org.
1by making the plates thicker. They may thus be tuned to our modern concert pitch, and at the same time made strong enough to bear the increased pressure—which is only another singular proof that music and science always harmonise. The breast of a Strad, all finished and with the f holes cut and a modern bass bar, gives at positions 7 and 8 these notes—
3With plates of the proper thickness and my bass bar, the notes will be these—
5Without the bar the notes will be these—
7with the bar they are these—
9Vincenzo Panormo seems to have realised this fact, for though he worked nearly a 100 years ago, when the pitch had not risen quite so high, he certainly made the plates of his violins thicker than those of Stradivarius, whom he copied so beautifully.
11The notes of the back of a Strad, or Maggini, or Guarnerius may be got without taking the violin to pieces, by taking a firm grip of the neck and bowing on the peg of the First and
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