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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
74 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 133. See the scan on archive.org.
1<table>
2 <tr>
3 <th>Number of String.</th>
4 <th>Name of Note.</th>
5 <th>How to form it for tuning.</th>
6 </tr>
7 <tr>
8 <td>1</td>
9 <td>D sharp</td>
10 <td>On the first fret of the D string.</td>
11 </tr>
12 <tr>
13 <td>2</td>
14 <td>B flat</td>
15 <td>third " G "</td>
16 </tr>
17 <tr>
18 <td>3</td>
19 <td>F</td>
20 <td>" fifth " D "</td>
21 </tr>
22 <tr>
23 <td>4</td>
24 <td>C</td>
25 <td>" fifth " G "</td>
26 </tr>
27 <tr>
28 <td>5</td>
29 <td>G</td>
30 <td>D "</td>
31 </tr>
32 <tr>
33 <td>6</td>
34 <td>D</td>
35 <td>By the open D string.</td>
36 </tr>
37 <tr>
38 <td>7</td>
39 <td>A</td>
40 <td>On the second fret of the G string.</td>
41 </tr>
42 <tr>
43 <td>8</td>
44 <td>E</td>
45 <td>D "</td>
46 </tr>
47 <tr>
48 <td>9</td>
49 <td>B</td>
50 <td>" fourth " G "</td>
51 </tr>
52 <tr>
53 <td>10</td>
54 <td>F sharp</td>
55 <td>D "</td>
56 </tr>
57 <tr>
58 <td>11</td>
59 <td>C sharp</td>
60 <td>" sixth " G "</td>
61 </tr>
62 <tr>
63 <td>12</td>
64 <td>G sharp</td>
65 <td>D "</td>
66 </tr>
67</table>
69escaped controversy. For instance, some players hold that Fig. 150, p. 130, does not show the real Stuttgart method, and that Fig. 151 illustrates the Munich rather than the Viennese system. The following is a brief statement of their case:—The Stuttgart school has two methods; these are C, G, D, A, E, E from below up, entailing a sixth string, or C, G, D, A, A, E, E composed of seven strings:
71The true Viennese stringing is C, G, G, D, A, which, to be correct, must have the G between the G and D tuned one octave above the other. The Munich method is the only correct one harmonically, and is C, G, D, A, A, the two A's being tuned alike, the others being each one-fifth above one another. All the other strings of the zither are tuned in fifths, and as already stated.
73Anyone intending to make a zither would find it worth while to adopt the shape shown by Fig. 152. It is known as the Arion, and was designed by a well-known
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