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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making
1899.
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| 6 | CONTENTS | Read | |
| 10 | INTRODUCTION | Read | |
| 11 | against argument and fact, or anything t… | Read | |
| 12 | world will doubt many of my statements i… | Read | |
| 13 | much of this free instruction for the go… | Read | |
| 14 | look for a change in this respect, I am… | Read | |
| 15 | CHAPTER I | Read | |
| 16 | be readily conceded. Do you know of a ma… | Read | |
| 17 | until the once supposed impossible is da… | Read | |
| 18 | While it is a fact that the old makers p… | Read | |
| 19 | might be some grounds for contradiction.… | Read | |
| 20 | absolute success. From first to last the… | Read | |
| 21 | more confusing to the student, when upon… | Read | |
| 22 | CHAPTER II. | Read | |
| 23 | light on the subject. No doubt they sett… | Read | |
| 24 | quired the art previous to and during hi… | Read | |
| 25 | feat. This defeat led them in some way t… | Read | |
| 26 | fabulous wood that had "absorbed the mus… | Read | |
| 30 | pose they did, as they could not have ha… | Read | |
| 31 | doubtful if any such process were known… | Read | |
| 32 | one is looked on with suspicion if he ex… | Read | |
| 33 | no use for the very old violins, except… | Read | |
| 34 | of my study and work many hundreds of vi… | Read | |
| 35 | Wood can be no exception to the rule. It… | Read | |
| 36 | bration could be stopped at any desired… | Read | |
| 37 | been made, for it has been universally a… | Read | |
| 38 | They did not notice the inconsistency, o… | Read | |
| 39 | essential quality is resonance, which ca… | Read | |
| 40 | tended for, then there has been but very… | Read | |
| 41 | be many failures, and the system condemn… | Read | |
| 42 | tion in work and depend less on quality… | Read | |
| 43 | be done by design), when it was ready fo… | Read | |
| 44 | CHAPTER III. | Read | |
| 45 | I have no reverence for an error because… | Read | |
| 46 | never for a moment blamed themselves. Th… | Read | |
| 47 | will be sustained. From the year 1500 to… | Read | |
| 48 | But the modern makers, having failed to… | Read | |
| 49 | the coveted recipes were never found. Th… | Read | |
| 50 | than the Cremona makers ever dreamed of.… | Read | |
| 51 | tain class of writers, and been adopted… | Read | |
| 52 | uncertain whether or not I had discovere… | Read | |
| 53 | sented is only an illogical opinion, voi… | Read | |
| 56 | student of facts could be expected to ac… | Read | |
| 57 | There seems to be an inclination with ma… | Read | |
| 58 | that oil is superior to spirit varnish.… | Read | |
| 59 | according to the excellence of his sound… | Read | |
| 66 | ly believe no one can ever attain to tha… | Read | |
| 67 | came when I found that even the best mak… | Read | |
| 75 | I have spoken of a "perfect system of gr… | Read | |
| 76 | effect this has on the higher grade of v… | Read |