This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... so did many others after him. It need not be said that this "box" lacked all the brilliance of the Italian masterpieces, though it may have been suitable for the expression of the " softer sentiments." This rectangular chest, called a "fiddle," like many another box which enthusiasts have fitted with strings, had a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... so did many others after him. It need not be said that this "box" lacked all the brilliance of the Italian masterpieces, though it may have been suitable for the expression of the " softer sentiments." This rectangular chest, called a "fiddle," like many another box which enthusiasts have fitted with strings, had a very weak and peculiar tone of its own, but it was not in any sense the true " fiddle-tone." Later on, Savart abandoned the use of this rectangular monstrosity, and sought by other experiments to unravel the secrets of the art of violin-making. He believed he could find useful data for his enquiries in the vibration numbers of the belly and back, as well as in the volume of air enclosed with the violin. By the liberality of Vuillaume, the Parisian violin maker, Savart was placed in a position to thoroughly examine a great number of the best specimens of Stradivarius and Guarnerius, not only as complete entities, but also as regards their separate components, and to make of them a most careful acoustic analysis. By means of a series of experiments, on similar lines to those made in physics to discover the nature of the vibrations of sounding bodies, Savart found that the note given by the belly and back respectively of each of the masters' instruments differed by a tone. In order to convince himself of the necessity for this difference of a tone, he had a violin built, of which both belly and back were of pine, and the tones of which, when set in vibration, were precisely alike. The quality of tone of this violin turned out to be thin and weak. Then he substituted a back of maple for the one of pine, the note of which was the same as that of the belly, just as was the case with the pine back. This, again, p...
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