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The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
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1If it is a "pure," string, the vibrations will assume this form, without extra lines:—
3If the vibrations are not regular and uniform, a third line will be seen, thus:—
5A string is pure in fifths with its neighbouring string, if, when both are pressed down by one finger, they give perfect fifths in all positions. In this regard it should be noted that many strings are thinner at one end than the other. If this gradual thinning goes regularly from one end of the string to the other, its vibrations will be regular and uniform; but, all the same, it will not make pure fifths with the next string in all positions, because, for example, to produce the octave, the string which gradually thins down must not be fingered in the middle but rather nearer to the thicker end. If two strings, say E and A, are each thicker at one end than the other, and the thin portions are at opposite ends (that is, if the thicker end of the A string is at the peg-box and the thicker end of the E string is at the bridge), these two strings cannot possibly make perfect fifths in all positions. The thinner ends of both should be together, and it is better they should be at the bridge end, so as not to impede vibration.
72. THE SOUNDING BODY.
9Only the smallest part of the peculiar brilliance of the violin tone comes direct from the strings themselves. To
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