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The Violin: How to Master It, 1880
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1thought ungainly or objectionable, a handkerchief may be made into a loose pad and thrust in between the waistcoat and the shirt, though I am bound to say that that is a clumsy way of getting out of the difficulty, and one particularly offensive to the eye. Lastly, if neither of these plans be adopted, a chin-rest may be fixed to the violin, which makes slipping almost impossible.
3Chin-Rests.
5Spohr designed a fiddle-holder, which was fixed above the tail-piece of the violin, and thus exactly in the centre of the instrument. That was the fault, and the true secret of this holder never having become popular, as all experience goes to show that an easy command of the back strings is attained only by keeping the chin on the left side of the tail-piece.
7The best chin-rest sold is the Columbia. This has a hard rubber top properly hollowed out to fit the chin. It is easily attached by a patented arrangement. It will fit perfectly any size instrument from a quarter size Violin to the largest Viola.
9Design for a New Fiddler-Holder.
11I have myself designed a holder which, however, I have never got made or tested, as I do not use a holder myself. This is a combination of tail-piece and violin-holder. My plan is to have the holder and tail-piece cut out of one piece of ebony, the holder to be at the left side of the tail piece, and touching the violin only on the extreme outer edge of the breast-plate above the ribs, and only with three tiny feet on the wood like those on the bridge of the violin, only pointed instead of spread out at the bottom. The ridge of the holder is half-an-inch thick behind, and flat on the top, and has a
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