Finger-Board Instruments Without Neck: Classification

As it was especially with the class of finger-board instruments dealt with here that experiments were made during the Middle Ages in the different methods of playing, and as it was thus at length discovered which peculiarities served each of the two modes of playing best, it will first be necessary to classify this category of finger-board instruments according to the manner in which they were manipulated, and then to follow our earlier plan of grouping them in accordance...