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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making, 1899
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1more confusing to the student, when upon examining two violins of equal merit, to find the construction of one diametrically opposed to the other, or to examine two of the same maker, only to find as great a difference.
3We have been furnished in the lives of the old makers what I consider most conclusive evidence that they did not regard themselves as masters of the art. They could not have done so, from the fact that they were so often radically changing the form and inner proportion of their work. If the success of any one maker had been uniform, he would have had no cause to change his plan of work, and others seeing his success would have copied his style. The latter part of the Cremona era would have witnessed but one form of violins, as all would gladly have given up a partial success for an assured one, or human nature was very different at that time from what it is today. But more of this later on.
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