Improvements in violins
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
I, EDWARD COMYNS DURNFORD, Basildon, Brentwood Essex, Accountant,
(late Montreal Canada) do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Improvements in violins.
The two salient features are
1st. Improved mode of attaching tail piece to violin.
In my invention the stout gut which attaches the tail piece to the violin is not as
at present fastened to a peg in the butt end of the violin but is continued along the
back of the violin to the neck piece to which it is attached.
2nd. (Consequent) ready adjustability of neck piece.
1 do not fix and glue the neck piece to the violin, as is now done, but leave it
movable and therefore readily adjustable to any angle or distance from the body of
the violin to which when tuned the neck piece firmly adheres.
Dated this Tenth day of January 1895.
The two salient features are
1st. Improved mode of attaching tail piece to violin.
In my invention the stout gut which attaches the tail piece to the violin is not as
at present fastened to a peg in the butt end of the violin but is continued along the
back of the violin to the neck piece to which it is attached.
2nd. (Consequent) ready adjustability of neck piece.
I do not fix and glue the neck piece to the violin, as is now done, but leave it
movable and therefore readily adjustable to any angle or distance from the body of
the violin to which when tuned the neck piece firmly adheres.
Dated this Tenth day of January 1895.
E. C. DURNFORD,
Applicant.
Improvements in Violins.
EDWARD COMYNS DURNFORD, Accountant, Basildon, Brentwood, Essex, (late
Montreal Canada,) do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
Inanner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
I. Attachment of tail-piece.
In my invention the stout gut E. attaching the tail piece to the violin, is not as
in the ordinary way, fastened to a button in the butt end of the violin, but is
continued over and along the back of the violin, to the neck to which it is attached
by being hooked or fastened to a post f. formed by elongating the shoulder of the
neck-piece, so as to project slightly through a hole H. made in the usual small oval
shaped protruberance of the upper end of the rim of the back of the violin, in
which said hole the said post fits loosely. The whole together with the four
playing strings, forming a band rigidly clasping the violin, when tuned.
11. (Consequent) adjustability of neck-piece.
I do not fix and glue the neck piece to the body of the violin, but leave it
movable and readily adjustable at any angle with, or to any distance from the body
of the violin. And the neck piece may be also thus used with the common mode of
attaching the tail piece. The tension of the four playing strings sufficing to hold
the neck rigidly in position.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. A mode of attaching the tail piece in violins and string instruments, by
extending the stout gut E. of the tail piece over and along the back of the
instrument, to the neck to which it is attached.
2. The said stout gut E. is attached to the neck by being fastened to a post f.
formed by elongating the shoulder of the neck-piece so as to project through and
fit loosely in the oval shaped protruberance H. of the rim of the back of the
instrument.
3. The principle of the movable, unfixed, neck-piece in violins and string
instruments, obviously resulting from the preceding claims.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of February 1895.
E. C. DURNFORD,
Applicant.