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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making, 1899
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1world will doubt many of my statements is only reasonable to expect, and that there are some who will doubt all is looked for. I only ask for an honest investigation.
3In presenting this review to the public, I do not propose to give the history of the violin, or to follow the lives of prominent makers of any period. This has been so repeatedly and exhaustively done that there is nothing new to give. In all works of recent years, whether in book form or short articles, one only finds a repetition of what has long since become tiresome. No one need hope to create an interest on these old lines without some new matter.
5The subject of the violin seems to have a peculiar fascination for a certain class of minds—minds which appear to be easily burdened with the subject, and find relief only in the frequency of their squibs, and when imbued with rather more than ordinary inspiration will tell us "How to make a violin." This information makes its appearance only a little less often than the changes of the moon, and is usually written by those who could make a longer and more interesting story of what they did not know about it. There has been too
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