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MAY I be permitted to correct a careless expression in my letter appearing in your last issue on this subject? The passage I refer to is this: “If the bridge [of the violin] were placed near one end of the instrument, the case would be different,” i.e. the tone would be louder. I ought rather to have said: “If the bridge were placed nearer to a firm support, the case would be different.” The statement is perfectly true as it stands with a sound-board which is equally thin all over, or where the edges are thicker than the middle. It is not true with a construction like that of the violin, where the edges are extremely thin and flexible. A sonorous wave always transmits itself best from the stronger part of the surface to the weaker.
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HOWSON, R. The Function of the Sound-Post in the Violin. Nature 28, 300 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028300c0
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