Stradivari

Contents

• Preface
• 1. Historical background
• 2. Stradivari's workshop materials
• 3. The violin forms and patterns
• 4. Violin fittings and setup
• 5. The dance master's kit
• 6. The viola da gamba and viola d' amore
• 7. The lute
• 8. The mandola and mandolino
• 9. The guitar
• 10. The harp
• 11. The workshop
• Appendices: 1. The Hill Bass-Bar collection
• 2. Thomas Salmon's 'The Theory of Musick Reduced to Arithmetical and Geometric Proportions' from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1705
• 3. A case study: The 'Messiah'
• Color plates.