The Violin: Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators (CD E-Book)

Author: George Hart

George Hart's classic work, now available on CDrom.
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* in Adobe PDF format, from the rare enlarged and revised edition published in 1885.

Includes:

• Violin dictionary describing hundreds of makers, their level of originality and who they imitated, etc
  Chapters on:
• National Characteristics of stringed instruments.
• Dealers and Collectors.
• Construction and setting up of violins.
• Players and the history of the violin.
• Gut strings - experiments and stringing of.

The author was from a family of violin makers and dealers through whose hands passed some of the world's most precious instruments.

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