Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906

4 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 135. See the scan on archive.org.

1ZITHER MAKING.
3Figs. 155 and 156, the former being the Streich or bow zither or alpine violin, and the latter the philomela or philomèle. Upon both elaborate violin music may be performed with proportionately little practice. Of the two, the earlier form is the Streich zither, this consisting of an upper and lower "table" or sound-board, of the bellows-like form shown, the upper one being perforated with "rosettes," or sound-holes, of arbitrary shape. Along

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