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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making, 1899
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1no use for the very old violins, except those who are too poor to afford new ones. I have it from the best authority that scores of these old instruments could be bought for a few dollars each, and many would be given away if asked for. I have been informed by the Rev. N. S. Waaler, a native of Norway, that the celebrated Norwegian violin maker, Knute Elfson, who took the gold medal at the Paris Exposition, has the same opinion of old wood, and old violins that I have, and that our investigations have been along the same lines and ended with the same results, though each was ignorant of the other's existence and had not made public his ideas.
3As regards the condition of wood, my researches have given the most incontrovertible testimony to the fact that when wood has been cut in the proper season (any time between December and March) and split in the rough to the proper thickness, then placed under shelter where the air can have free action for eighteen months, no added time or condition can enhance its value or add to its resonant qualities. In this matter I have had the most extensive opportunities for testing wood and violins of all ages. In the forty-five years
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