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 . Fio. 105.—View of Tail-pin with Rest at base of Fiddle. Th^ Rent is that small piece of ebonv, or other hard material(e. Fig. 105), over which the gut passes from the button A to thetail-piece. It measures, in length. If inch; breadth. J| depth and shape ar*> regulated by the edge of the ^ddlewhose shape it follows, its only office being to protect the fdgeof the fiddle from the gut-lo
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 . Fio. 105.—View of Tail-pin with Rest at base of Fiddle. Th^ Rent is that small piece of ebonv, or other hard material(e. Fig. 105), over which the gut passes from the button A to thetail-piece. It measures, in length. If inch; breadth. J| depth and shape ar*> regulated by the edge of the ^ddlewhose shape it follows, its only office being to protect the fdgeof the fiddle from the gut-loop (b, Pig. 100), which would other-wise cut into it with the tendon of the strings. These fittings, therefore, having been duly apportioned ^o tha 196 VIOLIN-MAKING : AS IT WAS AND Fig. 106.—Chin-rest(L. Spohr). instrument, there remains only to string the fiddle to have itready to play upon. In the next, chapter I shall shortly describethe operations through which the guts in the natural state passbefore they reach us as strings : but in the meantime we mustconsider, before leaving our fiddle, the various appliances whichare to be found in every fiddle-case, and which include chin-rests, mutes, gauges, string-box, rosin,tuning-forks, etc. The first and most im-portant of these is— The Chin-rest, which in its most primi-tive form (represented in Fig. 106) is saidto have been invented by L. Spohr, andis, without doubt, a great convenience toviolinists, as the hold which it gives thechin, which could not otherwise be obtainedbut by great pressure, imparts a freedomand ease to the left hand in shifting, which comes of its beingrendered absolutely irresponsible as far as the retaining of thefiddle in its proper position is concerned, beyond merely sup-porting it
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