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The Violin: How to Master It, 1880
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1Rosining the Bow.
3In rosining the bow the hair should be drawn but three or four times back and forwards evenly across the surface, with a steady, firm pressure, and not too fast. Haste fires the rosin; while a gentle treatment brings it off crisp and white as flour. When the bow has been re-haired, powdered rosin, fine as flour, must be rubbed well into the hair from both sides as soon as it is thoroughly dry. The best rosin to be used is a matter of taste. The fingers must never touch that part used to rosin the bow; and the rosin should be put away in a box as soon as used, to guard it from grease and dust. In handling a bow the same precaution should be used — the fingers never touching the hair except, as I shall show in the chapter on bowing, where the back of the thumb presses against it near the nut.
5The Violin Case.
7The bow ought to be kept in a case, fastened flat against the lid, and not in a bag, which greases the hair, wears it smooth, and tends to warp the stick. The case containing the violin and bow, and stock of strings, should be kept in a dry, cool place, neither warm nor cold, and not on the floor or close to a wall, or near any heavy curtains or articles likely to attract or retain damp.
9CHAPTER IV.
11Stringing the Violin.
13Everything about the study of the violin, to be done well, must be done with neatness and exactitude. Stringing the instrument is a simple operation, but there is nevertheless a right and a wrong way. The thickness of string best suited to the student's instrument can be decided only by experiment, but it is a safe rule to have the strings rather thin than thick. A thin string responds more readily; gives a purer tone; carries further, though to the player it may seem weaker; and is sweeter in chords, and more brilliant and velvety high upon the shifts. Every student ought to keep
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