First published in 1972, Walter Kolneder's "Das Buch der Violine" quickly established itself as the standard work on the violin, dealing with every aspect of the instrument in truly encyclopedic fashion: its construction, history, and literature; violin playing and teaching; and violin virtuosos through the ages. This first English-language edition is based on the fifth German edition, published in 1993, but includes information on recent developments not available to the author.