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The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
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1this same absence of the bridge characterises another instrument, the "key fiddle" (see Fig. 16), which is thus given not only by Agricola but by Prætorius as well. The "great fiddle" and the "key fiddle" are very similar in construction, and Prætorius gives the latter a place amongst those instruments which not only possess a bridge, but which demanded as great care in their construction as our modern instruments.
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5THE LITTLE FIDDLE.
7Virdung's "little fiddle" (see Fig. 10) differs from our modern violin in the following points:—There is no fourth string; the great thickness of the neck; the mandoline-like sweep of the shape of the body; the altogether abnormal construction of the sound-table or belly; and the survival of the half-moon shaped sound-holes originated by the Mohammedans. On the other hand,
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