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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1SECTION III.
2Italian and other Strings.
4UPON the strings of the Violin depends in a great measure the successful regulation of the instrument. If, after the careful adjustment of bridge, sound-post, and bass-bar, strings are added which have not been selected with due care and regard to their relative proportion, the labour expended upon the important parts named is at once rendered useless. Frequently the strings are the objects least considered when the regulation of a Violin is attempted; but if this be the case, results anything but satisfactory ensue. It is, therefore, important that every Violinist should endeavour to make himself acquainted with the different varieties and powers of strings, that he may arrange his instrument with greater facility.
6The remarkable conservatism attending the structural formation of the Violin exists more or less in the appliances necessary for the awakening of its dormant music. If we turn to its pegs we find them of the same character as the peg of its far-removed ancestor, the monochord, and if we compare the Italian peg of the seventeenth century with a modern one, the chief difference lies in the latter
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