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The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin
London: "The Strad" office ; New York : Charles Scribner's sons, 1905.
On archive.org as violinitsstoryor00abel.
132 pages read (scans 11 to 152)12 names found2 makers on this site cite it
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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 |
| 18 | 4 | the neck. On the under side of this neck… | Read |
| 19 | 5 | was weak and dull, though pleasant. Acco… | Read |
| 20 | 6 | the Rebek. The finger-board is cylindric… | 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 |
| 32 | 18 | when these people died, the authorities… | Read |
| 33 | 19 | was struck off by lightning, and twenty-… | Read |
| 34 | 20 | opportunities of exhibiting their powers… | Read |
| 35 | 21 | and in earlier times they were always se… | Read |
| 36 | 22 | In the picture of the "great fiddle" of… | Read |
| 37 | 23 | Fétis further remarks that with an instr… | Read |
| 38 | 24 | this same absence of the bridge characte… | Read |
| 39 | 25 | the "little fiddle" shows a decided adva… | Read |
| 40 | 26 | This last "way" corresponds to our own v… | Read |
| 41 | 27 | Judenkünig, on the other hand, speaks of… | Read |
| 43 | 29 | player's two arms. The "sound-holes" are… | Read |
| 44 | 30 | A few extracts from Praetorius on the fa… | Read |
| 45 | 31 | Viol de Bracio, or Violino da brazzo, ot… | 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 |
| 52 | 36 | Towards the middle of the sixteenth cent… | Read |
| 53 | 37 | and parallel to each other—a feature whi… | Read |
| 54 | 38 | have recently gained a certain popularit… | Read |
| 55 | 39 | collection of Count Cozio de Salabue, of… | Read |
| 56 | 40 | produce an instrument capable of yieldin… | 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 |
| 60 | 44 | the greatest perfection, and to regulate… | Read |
| 61 | 45 | The instruments made by Stradivarus from… | Read |
| 62 | 46 | difficulties found in the new style of p… | Read |
| 63 | 47 | surpassing beauty, and the most extreme… | Read |
| 64 | 48 | Stradivarius stand Joseph Guarnerius and… | 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 | GENOA. | 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 | FRENCH MAKERS. | Read |
| 80 | 64 | to supply the Royal Chapel with an entir… | Read |
| 81 | 65 | Razenzo; and he by his name would seem t… | Read |
| 82 | 66 | respond easily to the touch, and the ins… | 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 |
| 87 | 71 | always give notes one tone apart, becaus… | Read |
| 88 | 72 | even been made of tortoise-shell! All th… | Read |
| 89 | 73 | One of these causes was that makers soug… | Read |
| 90 | 74 | they had no rivals to fear, and when so… | Read |
| 91 | 75 | these imitations without his own label o… | Read |
| 92 | 76 | of the wood alone that we owe excellence… | Read |
| 93 | 77 | PART III. | Read |
| 94 | 78 | they differ in their purpose, and still… | Read |
| 95 | 79 | itself above, below, and around in gradu… | Read |
| 96 | 80 | drawn by some force to the positions a,… | Read |
| 97 | 81 | the violin,* but the strings become long… | Read |
| 98 | 82 | altogether apart from the fact that such… | Read |
| 99 | 83 | THE VIOLIN AND ITS STORY. | Read |
| 101 | 85 | lower note; those in the second row the… | Read |
| 102 | 86 | Just as the number of vibrations of a st… | Read |
| 103 | 87 | tenacious—tougher, in short—than those o… | Read |
| 104 | 88 | The pieces of macerated or fermented ent… | Read |
| 105 | 89 | effect of the lye is quicker in this cas… | Read |
| 106 | 90 | oil, cut into pieces from six to eight f… | Read |
| 107 | 91 | The best violin firsts are made by Prial… | Read |
| 108 | 92 | If it is a "pure," string, the vibration… | Read |
| 109 | 93 | prove this, stretch a string between two… | Read |
| 110 | 94 | the particles of which the sounding body… | Read |
| 111 | 95 | Savart measured the elasticity of variou… | Read |
| 112 | 96 | which are known by the name 'pith rays'… | Read |
| 113 | 97 | very excellent instruments are to be met… | Read |
| 114 | 98 | disturb the air-waves caused by the vibr… | Read |
| 115 | 99 | essentials of the art of violin making.… | Read |
| 116 | 100 | opening the compasses on the one side to… | Read |
| 118 | 102 | But if the violin maker wishes to work n… | Read |
| 119 | 103 | 3. THE BASS BAR, SOUND POST, AND BRIDGE. | Read |
| 120 | 104 | bar, so as to enable the belly to resist… | Read |
| 121 | 105 | exactly under the foot of the bridge, as… | Read |
| 122 | 106 | the distance is right. If it is, bring t… | Read |
| 123 | 107 | prototype, the more will the tone develo… | Read |
| 124 | 108 | much more cut away, is from a five-strin… | Read |
| 125 | 109 | familiar, because, as before stated, it… | Read |
| 126 | 110 | the medium by which the vibrations of th… | Read |
| 127 | 111 | of the feet of your bridges make no mark… | 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 | 116 | ments, sold for ten guineas; his best bo… | Read |
| 133 | 117 | When Viotti came to Paris, in 1786, it w… | Read |
| 134 | from its root to its point, it will offe… | Read | |
| 135 | In conclusion, I will briefly offer a fe… | Read | |
| 136 | INDEX. | Read | |
| 137 | INDEX—continued. | Read | |
| 138 | SIXTEENTH YEAR OF ISSUE. | Read | |
| 139 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. 1. | Read | |
| 140 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. II. | Read | |
| 141 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. III. | Read | |
| 142 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. IV. | Read | |
| 143 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. V. | Read | |
| 144 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. VI. | 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 | |
| 151 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. XIII | Read | |
| 152 | "THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. XIV. | Read |
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