A treatise on physiology and hygiene for educational institutions and general readers .. . Fig. 12 shows the muscles and tendons of the hand ; A showing the palm, B the back of thehand. These numerous muscles and tendons form a very complicated piece of mechan-ism, and help to give to the hand its marvellous dexterity and flexibility. mechanism of the hand than the execution of instrumental music. Examinean artist while he plays the violin. His fingers rest upon the strings so as toleave them exactly of the length necessary for the tones they are to give. Thehalf of a millimetre, more or less,
A treatise on physiology and hygiene for educational institutions and general readers .. . Fig. 12 shows the muscles and tendons of the hand ; A showing the palm, B the back of thehand. These numerous muscles and tendons form a very complicated piece of mechan-ism, and help to give to the hand its marvellous dexterity and flexibility. mechanism of the hand than the execution of instrumental music. Examinean artist while he plays the violin. His fingers rest upon the strings so as toleave them exactly of the length necessary for the tones they are to give. Thehalf of a millimetre, more or less, greatly changes the accuracy of the note ;and a chord a millimetre out of place produces a note which even the unprac-tised ear can recognize as false. But the fingers fall upon the strings at pre-cisely the point required. They run over them, succeeding each other withgiddy rapidity, following every imaginable combination, and yet the handgliding over the instrument incessantly changes its position. Sometimes asingle finger produces an isolated note ; sometimes two or three act simul
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