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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1bass, was played, like this instrument, in a free position.
3The manufacture of viols of the old sort continued for a considerable time after the new model for violins, violas and violoncellos, had been introduced, a proof that the flat whizzing tone, which necessarily resulted from its outer form and inner structure, in which often the indispensable bass-bar was wanting, continued to be admired for a long time, before the clear, brilliant, powerful and sonorous tone of the new instruments usurped the monarchy.
5Although Galileo, in his "Dialogues," says—"The violin, and the bass or violoncello, were invented by
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