The orchestra and its instruments . consider carefully the three im-portant and highly mysterious organs of the , I am calling them organs. Perhaps I had evenbetter say organs and nerves. These are the bridge,the sound-post and the bass-bar. The two latterare invisible. The bridge, a delicately cut little archof maple, or sycamore, higher on one side than onthe other, perforated curiously but according to aform learned through the experiments of centuries,has been called the tongue of the violin. The treblefoot of the bridge stands firm and rigid on thatpart of the belly made rigid b
The orchestra and its instruments . consider carefully the three im-portant and highly mysterious organs of the , I am calling them organs. Perhaps I had evenbetter say organs and nerves. These are the bridge,the sound-post and the bass-bar. The two latterare invisible. The bridge, a delicately cut little archof maple, or sycamore, higher on one side than onthe other, perforated curiously but according to aform learned through the experiments of centuries,has been called the tongue of the violin. The treblefoot of the bridge stands firm and rigid on thatpart of the belly made rigid by the sound-post. Thebass foot of the bridge rests on that part of the body,or belly, which vibrates freely, these vibrations beingincreased and regulated by the bass-bar. Throughthis bass foot of the bridge the vibration of the stringsis communicated to the belly and thence to the massof air in the violin. The treble foot of the bridge isthe centre of vibration. The action of the bridge,however, really depends upon the Der Jcleine vSWoya^d in Pari; A LITTLE SAVOYARD IN PARIS WITH VIELLE,OR HURDY-GURDY THE VIOLIN 15 The sound-post has been called the soul of theviolin. It is a little pine stick, a few inches long,about the size of a large cedar pencil. It is placedupright about an eighth of an inch to the back of theright foot of the bridge. Through it pass all the heart throbs, or vibrations,generated between the back and the belly. Therethe short waves and the long waves meet and is the material throbbing centre of that pulsatingair-column defined by the walls of the violin, butpropagating those mystic sound-waves that rippleforth in sweetness upon ten thousand ears. \ The bass-bar (or sound-bar) has been called thenervous system of the violin. It is an oblong pieceof wood glued lengthwise to the belly. It runs inthe same direction as the strings and acts as a beam,or girder, to strengthen the belly against the pressureof the left foot of the bridge. Th
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