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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1being more gross and ugly. Upon turning to the bridge, we see that the bridge of to-day is almost identical with the bridge of Stradivari; and when we come to the strings of the Violin, we discover that we have added but little, if anything, to the store of information regarding them possessed by our forefathers.
3In, perhaps, the earliest book on the Lute; that of Adrian Le Roy, published in Paris in 1570, and translated into English in 1574,* we read, "I will not omit to give you to understand how to know strings." "It is needful to prove them between the hands in
5* Fétis, in his notice of Le Roy, states that the first edition of this rare book was published in 1557, and was translated by J. Alford into English in 1568.
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