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If mellowness of quality be sought, a slight alteration of its position or form will produce a favourable change of singular extent; if intensity of tone be requisite, the sound-post is again the regulator.

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

If we accept the bass-bar as the nervous system of a Violin, the sound-post may be said to perform the functions of the heart with unerring regularity.

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

It is not possible to have any uniform arrangement of the sound-post in all instruments; as we have remarked before in reference to the bass-bar, the variations in the thickness, outline, model, &c., of the Violin are so frequent as to defy identity of treatment; uniformity has been sought for, but without success.

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

Violin -- System of placing the sound-bar -- Properties and position of the sound-post, and of the bridge; the neck; the finger-board; purfling, &c., &c.

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

The position of the sound-post is usually one-eighth to three-eighths of an inch behind the right foot of the bridge, the distance being variable according to the model of the instrument.

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

The next important feature of the internal organism is the sound-post, which serves many purposes.

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

One evening Krespel was in an uncommonly good humor; he had been taking an old Cremona violin to pieces, and had discovered that the sound-post was fixed half a line more obliquely than usual -- an important discovery!

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If, after the careful adjustment of bridge, sound-post, and bass-bar, strings are added which have not been selected with due care and regard to their relative proportion, the labour expended upon the important parts named is at once rendered useless.

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

There are two methods of setting the sound-post in the instrument: the first fixes it in such a position as to place the grain of the post parallel with the grain of the belly; the second sets it crosswise.

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

Neither the sound-post nor the bass-bar have ever been moved, and you see here a Stradivarius violin wearing exactly the same appearance as it once wore in the great master's workshop, and in exactly the same condition; yet I think the belly is sufficiently strong to stand modern stringing.

The Lost Stradivarius John Meade Falkner 1895