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 . ond merely sup-porting it at its proper angle. Some people prefer to place apad to fill the hollow beneath the collar bone, but it is notso certain ; others again aver that it checks the vibrations of the belly, but the fieldof contact at an almostquiescent point beingso small, and in thenewer forms being re-duced absolutely to aminimum, I think wemay dismiss this com-plaint as practicallywithout
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 . ond merely sup-porting it at its proper angle. Some people prefer to place apad to fill the hollow beneath the collar bone, but it is notso certain ; others again aver that it checks the vibrations of the belly, but the fieldof contact at an almostquiescent point beingso small, and in thenewer forms being re-duced absolutely to aminimum, I think wemay dismiss this com-plaint as practicallywithout foundation. Itwas founded on thissupposed disadvantagethat Ole Butt!out an English patentin 1879 (No. 1604),Pig. 107.—New form of chin-rest. for several wonderful and cumbrous arrangements of rest, or holder, embracingalmost the eniire base of the fiddle, and attached to the taiVpin orbottom block of the fiddle. Following the same line of thought,Zebrowski, at the same time that he patented his tail-piece andbridge-mute (Fig. 103), projected a holder of the ordinary shape,which instead of clipping the fiddle, was attached to a strapextending by a hook from the lower leit- hand corner of the. FITTINGS AND APPLIANCES. 19? fiddle to the tail-pin, to which it was firmly attached. Hisprinciple seems to have been, with a view to prevent theimaginary checking of the vibration by a tiny clamp, to claspthe entire left hand lower bout with a thick strap ! Commentis needless. The name of the fiddle-holders is legion in theirimproved form. A good typical specimen, and one which isbeyond the reach of the vibrationists, is the latest introduc-tion (from America) of Mr. W. E. Hill (Fig. 107), which isformed of vulcanite and nickel. Its composition gives itascendency over its rivals, than which in other respects it isneither better nor worse. A chin-rest forming one piece withthe tail-piece, and with it affixed to the tail-pin, is represented
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