Traces the history of the violin, discusses the materials used in violin-making, and offers guidance on the construction of a violin

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

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Edward Heron-Allen

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Some side-lights upon Edward FitzGerald's poem: "The ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam"

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Excerpt from Violin-Making, as It Was and Is: Being a Historical, Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional TO perfect that wonder of travel - the locomotive - has perhaps not required the expenditure of more mental strength and application, than to perfect that wonder of music - the violin.-l/v. E. Gladstone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Violin-Making, as It Was and Is: Being a Historical, Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional (Cla

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Excerpt from Edward Fitzgerald's Rubâ'iyât of Omar Khayyâm: With Their Original Persian Sources, Collated From His Own and Literally TranslatedThe inﬂuence of the Ouseley ms. Upon the poem forms the subject of the volume to which I have referred, and, save in so far as it recurs in the parallels which give excuse for the present work, may be dismissed, but the doubts which have sprung up as to the extent to which Edward fitzgerald took, as his editor, Mr. Aldis Wright, says, great liberties with the original, have arisen in consequence of the vicissitudes which have befallen the rest of the material from which the poet worked during the construction of his first edition. We have seen from Professor Cowell's letters to me (loc. Cit., p. Xxxiii) that he made a copy of the Ouseley ms. For Edward fitzgerald just before he went to India in August, 1856. In another letter he says: I got a copy made for him from the one ms. In the Bengal Asiatic Society's Library at Calcutta soon after I arrived in November, 1856. It reached fitzgerald June 14th.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edward Fitzgerald's Rubâ'iyât of Omar Khayyâm: With Their Original Persian Sources, Collated From His Own and Literally Translated (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Violin-Making, as It Was and Is: Being a Historical, Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional The History of the Violin, and other Instruments played on with the Bow, ' etc., by William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster (london Smith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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