British Violin Makers

by William Meredith Morris

Book Overview

This adaptable instrument's origins date back centuries. Celtic legends amuse us with mystical stories describing the creation of stringed music, but practical history recounts that the modern birth of the violin occurred in Italy as early as the sixteenth century. The skilled craft of hand production was renowned in France as well, but it is the British classic type and its history that W. Meredith Morris writes about in British Violin Makers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589802209
• ISBN13: 9781589802209
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"