Excerpt from The Orchestra and How to Write for It, Vol. 6: A Practical Guide to Every Branch and Detail of Modern Orchestration; Including Full Particulars of All Instruments Now in Use and Rules for Their Combination; With Numerous Exercises and Over Two Hundred Useful Examples From Modern Works The String Band is the most important section of the orchestra, being the most capable of expres sion and the least fatiguing to listen to. It is, therefore, to the orchestra what the diapasons are to the organ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.