THREE SETUPS, FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN.

The article discusses the three different setups of a violin which offers unique insight into what composers and players heard in the past. Topics discussed include the Baroque setup where the violin family of instruments featured a fat neck set at a shallower angle to the top, the Belgian cello bridge which is an invention of Modern setup and the Classical Setup which emerged to recreate the violins of 19th-century players at the forefront of music technology.