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to The String Quartet , (Cambridge, University Press, 2003), 29. 5 Marin Mersenne (1588-1648): philosopher, mathema tician and the Father of the first steps of acoustics; John the Baptist Viotti (1755-1824): Italian violinist and composer; François-Joseph Fétis, Antoine Stradivari, Luthier célèbre connu sous le nom de Stradivarius , (Vuil laume, Paris: 1856), 116-117. 6 Ibid. 7 Louis Baillot, L’art du violon: nouvelle méthode , (Paris: Dépôt central de musique, 1834), 10. 8 Ibid . 9 François-Joseph Fétis, La musique mise à la portée de tout le monde, 269-270. 10 http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/ img/grove/music/F000735. 11 Emile Cantor, “Nicolas Léonard Tourte, l’archetier du changement,” In les amis de l’alto Newsletter 27 (France, December 2001), 21. 12 Pernambuco: a region in Brazil Producing the wood; Emile Cantor, “Nicolas Léonard Tourte,” 18-20. 13 Ibid. , 18-19.

14 François-Joseph Fétis, Antoine Stradivari, Luthier célèbre connu sous le nom de Stradivarius, 118-119. 15 Ibid., 120; John the Baptist Viotti (1755-1824): Ita lian violinist virtuoso; Antoine Vidal, Les instruments à archet: les feseurs, les joueurs d’instruments, leur histoire sur le continent européen , Vol. 1 (Paris: Imprimerie de J.Claye, 1876), 269. 16 Maurice Riley, The History of the Viola , (Michigan: Braun-Brumfield, 1980), 162. 17 William Salchow (1926-2014): American eminent bowmaker and expert in history of bows construction; Maurice Riley, The History of the Viola , (Michigan: Braun-Brumfield, 1980), 158. 18 Op. cit..,161-162.

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