An Appliance for Teaching the Shifts and Positions on the Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and other Stringed Instruments.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
An Appliance for Teaching the Shifts and Positions on the Violin,
Viola, Violoncello, and other Stringed Instruments.
ALBERT EDWARD FINCH 6 Garfield Road Battersea London S.W. Builders'
Managing Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
I make of metal vulcanite or other suitable material a clip with a hole bored
through top to allow a rod to be inserted. I also make a rod of metal or other
suitable material with one end shaped to form a stop. I fix the clip to the
instrument by means of a screw at bottom. I next insert the rod with stop end
towards scroll and adjust it by means of a screw at top of clip in such a position as
to check the hand when moving along the neck, at any desired position. The
hand being stopped repeatedly at the correct spot quickly becomes accustomed to
move correctly into that position; thus overcoming a great difficulty now
experienced by all learners of stringed instruments.
Dated this Seventh day of November 1895.
An Appliance for Teaching the Shifts and Positions on the Violin,
Viola, Violoncello, and other Stringed Instruments..
ALBERT EDWARD FINCH Garfield Road Lavender Hill Battersea London,
S.W. Builders' Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings shows a side view of the clip and Fig. 2
an end view of the same.
I make of metal or other suitable material a clip A with two holes bored in top
of same one to admit of a small rod sliding backwards & forwards & the other
tapped and screwed and fitted with a screw D to fix the rod. I also bore the
bottom of the clip and fit a screw E to it for fixing the clip on instrument. I also
make a small rod B of metal or other suitable material one end of which I shape
to form a stop C. The size of clip and rod are regulated according to the size of
instrument for which the are to be used. To use the appliance I fix the clip to
the instrument in such a manner that the rod working at right angles to the clip,
extends parallel with and close to the finger board with shaped end towards the
scroll of instrument and the shaped end of rod checks the hand when moving along
the finger board at any desired position. The hand being checked repeatedly at
the correct spot quickly becomes accustomed to move correctly into that position.
As each separate shift is mastered the stop is adjusted to the next thus overcoming
a great difficulty experienced by all learners of stringed instruments of the
aforesaid classes.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
An adjustable stop or check for use in learning the positions and shifts on the
violin viola violoncello and other and similar stringed instruments, which can be so
adjusted us to stop the hand at any desired position when moving along the finger
board of the aforesaid instruments.
Dated this Fourth day of August One thousand eight hundred and
ALBERT EDWARD FINCH.