Scan 124
The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
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1much more cut away, is from a five-stringed viol; Fig. 21
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5is the bridge of a small sized violin from the old school of Anton Amati; and Fig. 22 was on a violin of
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9Nicholas Amati. The last two are almost of the form of the present bridge, but show some differences in respect to the number and direction of the cuts. It was the bridge of Stradivarius (Fig. 23) which fixed the form of that article for all time.
11The attempts to fit a bridge to a violin must be carried out with great industry, and still greater attention and patience; and these attempts can only be begun after the sound-post has been brought to its proper position. The mutual adjustment of the sound-post and bridge should be a matter with which the violin player is thoroughly
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