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| Title: | How to play the fiddle | |
| Author: | ||
| Contributor: | ||
| Publisher: | Unknown | |
| Place of Publication: | [Louth, Lincolnshire?] | |
| Date of Publication: | [1887?] | |
| Original Date of Publ: | 1886 | |
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| Number of Pages: | xxii, 100, vii p. | |
| Binding Style: | Paperback | |
| Dimensions: | 7.5 in. | |
| Contents: | Introductory -- Remarks on the purchase of your violin -- The preservation and repair of fiddles -- General and historical remarks -- Different parts and adjuncts of a violin -- The strings and the method of adjusting them properly -- The bow and bowing -- The method of tuning the violin -- Some rules to be observed in playing -- Double-stops, harmonics, shifts, the shake -- Playing with an accompaniment -- Concluding remarks | |
| Notes: | This copy is missing its title page (which is why the author and publisher are unknown). Includes an appendix with addtional remarks, and a topical index. | |
| Format: | Book | |
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| Subject - Topic: | Instrument maintenance and repair | |
| Subject - Instrument: | Fiddle, Violin | |
| Subject - Genre: | Instruction book |