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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making, 1899
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1be readily conceded. Do you know of a maker from first to last, who can or could, turn out a class of high grade violins, without intervening poor ones? If you do, the world does not. For my part, I have never met one, neither have I read of one who made even a pretense of unbroken success.
3Is it not a fact with all makers from the earliest history to the present, that the really good violins are the exceptions, and the poor ones the rule? This would not be the case if the proper method of construction had ever been determined.
5The results of every other branch of mechanics condemn this of the violin, and are proof that the methods are at fault. In all other branches of mechanics the workman will turn out his work so as to accomplish the object he has in view. If a machinist makes a locomotive that will draw fifty cars, he should be able to duplicate the result. But, if in using the same material and plans he should produce, not only one, but a score that would only draw the tender, he would hardly be entitled to the term "master."
7There has been an uninterrupted advancement in all branches of mechanics and science,
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