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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making, 1899
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1quired the art previous to and during his time, and taken it to other places. There was no reason for keeping the art centered at Cremona, as the place was but a village and offered no special inducement. So the art drifted away, as we find that at about this time violins were made in England, France and Germany; in fact had been made in the latter country some years.
3It was somewhere in the latter part of seventeen hundred that all the Cremona violins were changed by giving them the present form of neck, bass-bar and other internal changes. All of these violins have been in active use from the time they were made, and in consequence of the improvement in their tone quality gained thereby, their own makers would not have known them. They were practically different instruments as regards utility, power and quality. After the Cremona violins had been changed the more modern makers adopted the same changes. Now, even if the skill of modern makers had been superior to the old, the new violins would have had no chance in the comparison, because of the development of the old. But the modern makers did not understand this and accepted the apparent de-
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