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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making, 1899
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1They would now and then produce a fine instrument, as they had done before, but they adhered to the old wood theory with a tenacity worthy of a better cause.
3It is but recently that a few observant minds have begun to lose confidence in the old wood craze, and yet I doubt if any can give a well defined reason for their belief in new wood. If the one who first advanced this theory of old wood had stopped to reason in the matter, he would have seen at once that the Cremona makers could not have used wood of any considerable age, for many years must have elapsed before they finally settled on what they considered the best. If enough had been cut at the beginning of their work to have lasted to the close of the Cremona era, it would not have been nearly so old as we find recommended today.
5I received a letter but a few months ago from a gentleman in Maine, describing some wood in his possession, warranted to be over three hundred years old. I will, however, do him the justice to say he had more confidence in other wood that was but a few years old.
7There is no evidence to show the old makers used old wood, nor is there reason to sup-
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