Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 674
VIOLONCELLO. DOUBLE-BASS. will sound a higher note. Take your piece ofelastic, pinned on to the hollow box, and press itin the middle with your finger, so that it touchesthe wood, and then pull it again. It will soundmuch higher, because you have practically cutthe elastic in two. And if you press… … FROM Till; WOOD-WIND CHOIK. I good deal nearer one pin than the other, and thenpluck both parts, the short end will sound muchhigher than the long one. Thus it becomes pos-sible to make a great many notes with very fewstrings. We know that the Egyptians discoveredthis, for we see pictures from…
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