Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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The violin & its story : or, the history & construction of the violin, 1905

100 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1INDEX—continued.
3M
4Mágadis … 2
5Maggini, J. P. (1590) … 37
6 ,, S. … 38
7Marini, A. (1570) … 38
8Markneukirchen … 66
9Mersenne on Strings … 82
10Minnesingers … 19
11Milanese makers … 51
12Mirmont, of Paris … 66
13Mirecourt Factories … 65
14Mittenwald … 60
15Morelli, M. (1540) … 36
17N
18Naples makers … 55
19Neapolitan String manufacture… … 87
20Neck … 111 one of two readings
21Neck … … 111 one of two readings
22Notker's Psalm Book … 12
23Nut … 111 one of two readings
24Nut … … 111 one of two readings
26O
27Omerti … 5
28Orchestra first formed … 19
30P
31Paduan firsts are the best … 91
32Paganini's Guarnerius … 51
33Pith rays in belly pine … 96
34Plectrum … 3
35Prætorius's "Syntagma Musica," 1619 … 29
36"Prison Josephs" … 50
38R
39Ravanastron … 3, 4
40Rebab or Rebek … 5, 6, 13
41Resonance body … 86, 92
42Roman stringed instruments 2
43Roman makers … 54
44Ruggieri, F. … 51
45Ruggerius, J. B. … 54
47S
48Salo, Gaspardi (1613) … 36
49Savart's experiments … 67
50Schafhäutl on selection of wood … 95
51School of Brescia … 36
52Sound-post … 103
53 ,, Spohr on … 103
54Sounding body … 92
55Spohr on the Sound-post … 103
56Spohr's Lupot … 64
57Storioni … 51
58Stoss, of Vienna … 61
59Strings, facts about … 79
60Strings, acoustic facts about 85
61 ,, how to test … 92
62 ,, Spohr on selection of 91
63 ,, pressure on belly … 104
64Stainer, Jacob … 56
65Stradivarius … 43, 45
67T
68Tarisio … 46, 54
69Tartini's Bow … 113
70Tartini Tones … 83
71Tenor Gamba … 30
72Testore … 51
73Thicknesses of wood … 98
74Tourte's Bows … 114
75Troubadours … 17
77V
78Venans Fortunat on the Crouth … 7
79Venetian makers … 52
80Vibrations of Strings … 86
81Viola di Bordune … 2
82Viol, 4-stringed, tuning of 17
83Viola Bow, length of … 116
84Virdung's Great and Little Fiddle … 21, 24
85Viol Bastarda … 30
86Viol di Gamba … 30
87Viole de Braccio … 30
88Violin, name came from Italy 31
89 ,, Forerunners of … 32
90 ,, used in score of Monteverde's "Orfeo" 33
91 ,, Bow, length of … 116
92Virdung's "Musika getutsch" (1511) … 21
93Viotti's Bow … 113
94Vogler, Abbe, and Combination Tones … 84
95Vuillaume;
96 43, 46, 47, 63, 64, 66
98Z
99Zanetta, P. (1540) … 36

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