Adjusting and Repairing Violins, Cellos, &C - A Practical Handbook for All Players #250517

The first instrument to which I will devote my energies is an ordinary warehouse 'cello. It was purchased from a well-known London firm by one of my pupils for the sum of six guineas — not a high price, but still sufficiently high to demand attention. The tone on the bass strings is something like that which would be produced by a matchbox, While the A string is shrill and squeaking.