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A catalogue of the Lyon & Healy collection of rare old violins, violas, viloncellos, bows of rare makes, 1929
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1priced instruments we have never presented a choice of such magnitude, nor one representative of value so clearly unusual among violins of such artistic maturity.
3The policy instituted by Patrick Joseph Healy, upon his establishment of the house in 1864, was made to apply no less rigorously to our violin department when he inaugurated it over forty years ago. It was his wish that every violin offered in this department should be, in its class, the best possible value, musically and commercially. And that policy we maintain.
5The question of quality is most important to anyone contemplating the purchase of a violin. The late Theodore Thomas used to say that he could tell the kind of violin a soloist had used in his younger days after hearing him play a few measures. By this he meant that the quality of tone possessed by the artist was a sure indication of the class of violin he had used in his student days. If the tone of that instrument had been hard and inelastic, that of the mature player took on the same character; and although it might be very much improved by the instrument used in his concert work, yet there always remained that lack of beautiful tone color.
7We wish to call special attention to the artistic adjustment which every violin sold by us receives before leaving our establishment. Even a Stradivarius will not sound properly unless it is correctly adjusted. Without adjustment an instrument is never at its best, all the finer qualities being lost. This is a matter too often overlooked by purchasers of violins, because they do not understand its importance. We cannot emphasize too strongly the
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