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Title: The orchestra and its instruments
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Orchestra Musical instruments
Publisher: New York : The Symphony society of New York
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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lie nearer to one another on the strings.The flexible little finger can be extended still furtherin each position while the position of the wrist andthumb is still retained. As each finger presses the string tightly and firmly,the player shortens the vibration (or length) of thestring and gets a special note. He learns to knowhis fingerboard and where all the notes lie on thestrings with their intervals of whole tones and half-tones; and just what finger to place on these notesif he wants to play in the first, third, or fifth, posi-tion, — and so forth. The violinist rarely plays inany one position; but lets his wrist move up and downand his fingers fly all over the fingerboard, playingin all the positions just as he pleases. The playerhas to have a very accurate knowledge of the finger-board; and then, beyond that knowledge, a verycorrect ear so that he may play in perfect tune, orgood intonation, as it is called. A beginner on theviolin finds this task even harder than to learn to
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VIOLIN By Guarneri del Gesu. Owned by Paganini THE VIOLIN 39 draw a firm, straight, even and liquid bow. He hasto listen to every note he produces and test it, as itwere, until, after a time, he learns the fingerboardand his fingers drop on the right spots automatically.Of all musicians the players of strings have the mostsensitive, accurate and the best trained ears. On the strings certain other notes are producedcalled harmonics. At certain places on a string thereare nodes, as they are called, where, by lightly touch-ing the string with the finger, over-tones are set vi-brating. These are very strange and curious. Theysound ethereal and flute-like. There are two kinds ofharmonics: natural harmonics and artificial harmon-ics. The natural harmonics are found on the openstrings at certain definite places. There are five ofthese on each string. The artificial harmonics areproduced by stopping the string with one finger andtouching it lightly with another. These harmonicsare harder to m

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