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 . subject was read to the Academie des Sciences, on the 24th ofMay, 1817. A fall description of it may be found in the Description desMachines et Proced^s Sp6cifi6s dans les Brevets dlnvention/* 118 VIOLLN-MAKING : AS IT WAS AND It tome xv., p. 161 (Paris, 1828). And a report of its trial beforethe Council of the Academy may be found in the u MoniteurUniversel, 22 Aout, 1817. Savarts Trapezoid Violi
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 . subject was read to the Academie des Sciences, on the 24th ofMay, 1817. A fall description of it may be found in the Description desMachines et Proced^s Sp6cifi6s dans les Brevets dlnvention/* 118 VIOLLN-MAKING : AS IT WAS AND It tome xv., p. 161 (Paris, 1828). And a report of its trial beforethe Council of the Academy may be found in the u MoniteurUniversel, 22 Aout, 1817. Savarts Trapezoid Violin or Box-fiddle was one of the mostselebrated and satisfactory experiments ever tried on the con-struction of the instrument. He was led to its production bya series of carefully conducted experiments, which went toprove—(1) that a plane surface vibrates much more readily thanan arched or curved one ; (2) that consequently there are pointson the surface of a violin of the ordinary form where the vibra-tions are reduced to a minimum, or cease altogether ; (3) thatthe bouts, corner blocks, andyy holes are the principal causesand localities of this reduced vibration. He therefore constructeda
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