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The violin & its story : or, the history & construction of the violin
Abele, Hyacinth. London: "The Strad" Office ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1905.
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| 11 | FOREWORD BY THE TRANSLATOR. | Read | |
| 12 | CONTENTS. | Read | |
| 13 | PART III. | Read | |
| 14 | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. | Read | |
| 15 | The Violin and its Story. | Read | |
| 16 | and in the second place it is hardly nec… | Read | |
| 17 | 3 | the bow. Such conjectures possess, howev… | Read |
| 21 | 7 | strate in what direction the story of th… | Read |
| 23 | 9 | ungainly figures holding instruments, an… | Read |
| 24 | 10 | diameter of three centimetres. There is… | Read |
| 26 | 12 | grounds, that the latter is traceable to… | Read |
| 28 | 14 | Two pen and ink drawings, which stand as… | Read |
| 29 | 15 | bent inwards, above the bridge. The edge… | Read |
| 30 | 16 | under the name of "Mater Verborum." Amon… | Read |
| 31 | 17 | certain Albinus invented a viol of four… | Read |
| 49 | 33 | developed in Italy than in Germany are e… | Read |
| 50 | 34 | PART II. | Read |
| 51 | 35 | Brittany a maker of lutes named Kerlin,… | Read |
| 57 | 41 | two brothers are of a rare beauty of wor… | Read |
| 58 | 42 | beautiful appearance than that of his pr… | Read |
| 59 | 43 | penetrating but veiled and melancholy to… | Read |
| 65 | 49 | 1683, and his father, John Baptist, was… | Read |
| 66 | 50 | last pervaded his work. Such a change in… | Read |
| 67 | 51 | Among the finest and most famous of the… | Read |
| 68 | 52 | 1665 to 1690; his sons, John Baptist, 16… | Read |
| 69 | 53 | fiddles like those of the old Brescians,… | Read |
| 70 | 54 | LIVORNO. | Read |
| 71 | 55 | THE VIOLIN AND ITS STORY. | Read |
| 72 | 56 | Jacob Stainer was born on the 14th of Ju… | Read |
| 73 | 57 | great experience as a violin maker had c… | Read |
| 74 | 58 | The real and esteemed Stainers were divi… | Read |
| 75 | 59 | which he called "St. Peter" and "St. Pau… | Read |
| 76 | 60 | Matthäus Klotz, of Mittenwald. This, how… | Read |
| 77 | 61 | Cattle-raising is scarcely profitable: t… | Read |
| 78 | 62 | Stradivarius) as their models. The follo… | Read |
| 79 | 63 | THE VIOLIN AND ITS STORY. | Read |
| 83 | 67 | 'cellos at £7 10s. and violins with inla… | Read |
| 84 | 68 | into a mere broad coffin—"two boards and… | Read |
| 85 | 69 | bellies, which when separate did not vib… | Read |
| 86 | 70 | with a back movable up and down like the… | Read |
| 91 | 75 | these imitations without his own label o… | Read |
| 118 | 102 | But if the violin maker wishes to work n… | Read |
| 119 | 103 | 3. THE BASS BAR, SOUND POST, AND BRIDGE. | Read |
| 128 | 112 | above the fingerboard, and so "nicked" t… | Read |
| 130 | 114 | ponding with the taste of the period, di… | Read |
| 131 | 115 | of finger and delicacy of touch that wer… | Read |
| 132 | ments, sold for ten guineas; his best bo… | Read | |
| 133 | When Viotti came to Paris, in 1786, it w… | Read | |
| 136 | INDEX. | Read | |
| 137 | INDEX—continued. | Read | |
| 138 | SIXTEENTH YEAR OF ISSUE. | Read | |
| 139 | ADVERTISEMENTS. | Read | |
| 140 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. II. | Read | |
| 141 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. III. | Read | |
| 145 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. VII. | Read | |
| 146 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. VIII. | Read | |
| 147 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. IX. | Read | |
| 148 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. X. | Read | |
| 149 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. XI. | Read | |
| 150 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY. No. XII. | Read |
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