The neck is always mortised into the body with inclination backward and is straight. It has the maximum space between the hill and the button for the ease of reaching the high positions. A fingerboard is always of ebony, and it has always the same arching of the cross section. The lower strings may be of wound steel, perlon, nylon, or pure gut, whereas the steel e became common only around the first and the Second World War. The bridge is invariably placed between the f- hole notches.
Response is equal on every string.
Baroque violin Baroque violin between 16th and 18th centuries did not have any standardized dimensions of any part. The lengths of fingerboards, designs and placement of the bridges depended on local pitch standards, skills of the players' etc. Neither it ever had a fingerboard of solid ebony. Many of the baroque violins had neither any blocks nor linings inside. Even such an important part as the bass bar was often not in the 16th and 17th century's violins.