Scan 96
A catalogue of the Lyon & Healy collection of rare old violins, violas …, 1916
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1REPAIRING
3We furnish free estimates of the cost of repairing violins sent in for that purpose. Those which are found not worth the expense are returned, or a letter setting forth the condition is sent to the owner.
5There are many good old instruments lying idle in garrets and closets, which, in their present condition, are worth very little, because they cannot be played. For the lack of proper regulation they are, for all practical purposes, worthless. With properly adjusted bar, blocks, linings, neck, fingerboard, strings, etc., they immediately have a musical and commercial value often away beyond the idea of their owners. They then become valuable to a violinist who "knows." They then have power, evenness and brilliancy, and they respond to the bow readily and satisfactorily. The violin which previously was an inanimate object has become, through the skill of the repairer, possessed of life and song—a joy to those who know how to bring forth its manifold possibilities.
7Violins which have been broken in accidents, sometimes literally reduced almost to splinters, often are restorable. If not too far gone, they may be so repaired as to retain their tone. It often happens that they are better than ever, which, however, is not due to the fact of their having been broken to splinters, but to the skill of the repairer who is able to procure such results. Obviously, if he had had the same violin to adjust before it was broken, it would have turned out very much better still.
9ESTIMATING COST OF REPAIRING
11If a violin be a very old one, and has never been artistically repaired, it will probably require a complete going-over. This, as a rule, includes the following: A new neck grafted in the old head, regraduation of top and
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