Violin-making, as it was and is : being a historical, theoretical, and practical treatise on the science and art of violin-making, for the use of violin makers and players, amateur and professional . t must be ad-mitted that the// holes of a Bresciandouble-bass seem copied from the four-stringed tribe, and not at all from theelder family; secondly, that the violinand tenor are instruments of melody andharmony, whilst the double-bass is one ofharmony only. This is dead against itsbeing invented until after the instru-ments to which it is subsidiary. Man invents only to supply a want. Thus,then,
Violin-making, as it was and is : being a historical, theoretical, and practical treatise on the science and art of violin-making, for the use of violin makers and players, amateur and professional . t must be ad-mitted that the// holes of a Bresciandouble-bass seem copied from the four-stringed tribe, and not at all from theelder family; secondly, that the violinand tenor are instruments of melody andharmony, whilst the double-bass is one ofharmony only. This is dead against itsbeing invented until after the instru-ments to which it is subsidiary. Man invents only to supply a want. Thus,then, it is : first, the large tenor played between the knees ; then the violinplayed under the chin ; then (if not the first of them all) the small double-bass ; then (years after the violin) the violoncello ; then the full-sized double-bass ; then, longo intervallo, the small tenor played under the chin. Theauthor subsequently suggests very pertinently that the best way to solve thesedifficulties would be to find for what instruments the immediate predecessorsof Corelli, and Corelli himself at the beginning, scored their music, detailstaly to be obtained from the original MSS. or first Fig. 40.—/hole of Gaspare daSalo. Tenor. (1555.) BIOGRAPHICAL. 73 perhap3 da Salos most celebrated fiddle was the highlyornamented one of the great Swedish artist Ole Bull, in theornamentation of which he was aided (it is &) by thegreat Benvenuto Cellini himself, and which is referred to underthat head (vide par. Ornamentation, ch. ix., p. 167). It issaid to have been almost as perfect as when it left the makershands ; and at the great virtuosos death in the United States,was sold to some American amateur. His ticket is Gasparod? Salo, In Brescia. His genuine tickets are never dated,which makes the period of his activity at least open to questionand research, though one writer after another (quorum parsfui!)has accorded him chronologically the first place among the oldfiddle-makers.
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