CHAP. III.] 



STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. 



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if the instrument is in good tune, and always falsely if it is not, and 

 from this point of view alone it is seen how iufeiior the guitar is to 

 the violin. With the latter instrument, an artist with a good ear 

 corrects the variations which are produced in the tension of the strings 

 during the execution of a piece, by his fingering. In the guitar and 

 instruments in which the notes are regulated by fixed frets, such a 

 correction is impossible. 



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FIG. 104. Chinese stringed and bow instruments. 



The lute, arch-lute, theorbo, niandora and mandoline are of the 

 same class of instrument as the guitar, but in the present day are 

 nearly out of fashion. They only differ from the guitar in size, form of 

 the sounding-box, number and material of the strings and the way in 



