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The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
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1the neck. On the under side of this neck is fastened a strip of serpent skin which serves as a holder. The bridge is eighteen millimetres in length, slanting on the upper side, and cut out below in rectangular fashion so as to make two feet. The strings were of gazelle gut. The bow consisted of a light piece of bamboo reed, and in one end of this reed a hollow place was made in which to fasten a bundle of horse hair, which was drawn tight, and fastened at the other end by a very flexible braided reed tightly wound round it. Thus far Fétis.
3The Indians as a people, unlike the Chinese, do not like noisy music, and the tone of the Ravanastron (Fig. 1)
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7Fig 1.
9THE RAVANASTRON.
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