This book is a comprehensive guide to the construction, history and repertory of the four main string instruments: violin, viola, cello and double bass. The four articles were originally contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, but have been revised and updated where appropriate for this publication. All the articles are illustrated with detailed diagrams and half-tones, and the book also contains two glossaries, with short entries on individual makers and terms, a full bibliography and index.
- ISBN10 0333444523
- ISBN13 9780333444528
- Publish Date 5 October 1989 (first published 1 September 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 December 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Macmillan Publishers Limited
- Edition 1989 ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English