Roy Courtnall

tonal properties inherent in the chosen wood.

England, the Newark School of Violin Making

the influence of the Church was still overriding, and Latin was in general use as the language of documentation.

The entire text was in Latin, for example ‘fecit’ for ‘made by

However, the ordinary name of the maker was also generally given a latinized form, thus ‘Antonio Stradivari’ would become ‘Antonius Stradivarius’.

Latin form, for example ‘Giuseppe’ became ‘Joseph’ or ‘Josephus’

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, violin makers often made bows as well as violins

In the late eighteenth century, bow design became standardized, and the bow acquired its modern proportions:

He standardised the length of playing-hair at approximately 25½ inches [648 mm] slightly less for viola and cello

with possible advice from Viotti.