UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks

Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices

Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!

The Violin and Old Violin Makers

A. Mason Clarke

How does All You Can Books work?

All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.

Book Excerpt: 
. . .rule to direct him to stop all his notes in exact tune, which 9 those that do learn without seldom attain so good an ear to stop all notes in perfect tune. Therefore, for the better understanding of these following examples, I shall assign to those six frets on the finger-board of your violin six letters of the alphabet in their order” (here follow examples), after which he says:

“These few rules (and the help of an able master to instruct thee in the true fingering, and the several graces and flourishes that are necessary to be learnt by such as desire to be exquisite hereon), will in a short time make thee an able proficient.”

These quaint instructions would hardly suffice to meet the requirements of modern violin playing, but it is interesting to observe the rules and precepts laid down for the student’s guidance over two hundred years ago. Observe also the recommendation of frets for accuracy in stopping the notes.

T. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I've been violin shopping recently which led me to this book. It's ideal if you want to learn more about the well known makers but don't want a heavy tome. I especially like the facsimiles of the various makers labels (I'm sure it's been helpful for forgers as well).
The third section on this develo

This 1909 book is not so much one devoted to the development of the violin family of instruments or what differentiates them from their precursors, but more of a collection of the earliest descriptions of the instrument. The major part is a list of the most famous instrument makers from the sixteent

বেহালা বা ভায়োলিনের ইতিহাস কিন্তু অনেক চমকপ্রদ। যদিও অনেক সেরা লেখক ভায়োলিন নিয়ে লিখেছেন তবুও অনেক ক্ষেত্রে তারা বিপরীত মতামত ব্যক্ত করেছেন । সুতরাং ভায়োলিনের আবির্ভাব নিয়ে এখন পর্যন্ত কোন নির্ভরযোগ্য সমাধান পাওয়া যায় না।
এই দড়ি বা তার কেন্দ্রিক যন্ত্রটির প্রথম আবিষ্কার করেছিলেন শ্রীলঙ্কার র