Scan 36
The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
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1In the picture of the "great fiddle" of Virdung, whose drawings were almost exactly reproduced in the works of Agricola, Nachtigall, and S. Ganassi del Fontego, there are several conspicuous errors. Fétis says that this drawing (see Fig. 9) is in several points incorrect; the middle bouts are not right, because they are much too
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5THE GREAT FIDDLE.
7large; and the upper and lower bends are too small. A few violins and basses of the sixteenth century, still preserved in private cabinets on account of their rarity, show that the middle bouts are less than in the instrument as drawn by Virdung, although they were larger in proportion than those of the stringed instruments of our own day. Upon the question of the absence of a bridge,
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