Bass Bar

If we accept the bass-bar as the nervous system of a Violin, the sound-post may be said to perform the functions of the heart with unerring regularity. ❋ George Hart (N/A)

If, after the careful adjustment of bridge, sound-post, and bass-bar, strings are added which have not been selected with due care and regard to their relative proportion, the labour expended upon the important parts named is at once rendered useless. ❋ George Hart (N/A)

It is not possible to have any uniform arrangement of the sound-post in all instruments; as we have remarked before in reference to the bass-bar, the variations in the thickness, outline, model, &c., of the Violin are so frequent as to defy identity of treatment; uniformity has been sought for, but without success. ❋ George Hart (N/A)

The only essential part of the violin which has had to be changed since Stradivari's time is the bass-bar. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

If his lessons are to be of real benefit to him, the component parts of the instrument, post, bridge, bass-bar, strings, etc., must be accurately adjusted, in order that the sound values are what they should be. ❋ Frederick Herman Martens (1903)

He had had it properly strung; and as the bass-bar had never been moved, and was of ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)

It was, after all, perhaps not so serious a matter, for, as I have said, the bass-bar had given way. ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)

Neither the sound-post nor the bass-bar have ever been moved, and you see here a Stradivarius violin wearing exactly the same appearance as it once wore in the great master's workshop, and in exactly the same condition; yet I think the belly is sufficiently strong to stand modern stringing. ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)

With the failure of the bass-bar the belly collapsed, and the wood broke across the grain in so extraordinary a manner as to put the fiddle beyond repair, except as a curiosity. ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)