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SIR JOHN HERSCHEL says: “It (the bridge) sets the wood of the upper face in a state of regular vibration, and this is communicated to the back through a peg set up in the middle of the fiddle and through its sides, called the ‘soul’ of the fiddle, or its sounding-post.”2
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Paper read at teh Royal Society, May 24, by William Huggins, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.
"Encyclopædia Metropohtana," Article "Sound," P.804.
"Mémoire sur la Construction des Instruments à Cordes et à Archet," 8vo, Paris, 1819. Also Biot's "Report," Ann. de Chimie, tome 12, pp. 225–255.
"Traité de Physique, Acoustique," tome 1, p. 575.
"Sensations of Tone," translated by Ellis, p. 137. In the 4th German edition this passage remains unaltered.
I wish to express my indebtedness to Mr. A. J. Ellis far some suggestions in connection wjth these explriments.
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On the Function of the Sound-Post, and on the Proportional Thickness of the Strings of the Violin 1 . Nature 28, 259–261 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028259b0
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