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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making, 1899
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1CHAPTER III.
3VARNISH
5IT IS with great reluctance that I approach this part of the subject, knowing as I do that all who have even a fancied knowledge of violin lore so strongly adhere to the belief of the supremacy of the "Cremona varnish" that nothing short of a thunderclap of evidence could shake them out of the common rut of misconception they have been laboring in. An idea that has been so long and so universally accepted, however erroneous, becomes nearly sacred, and to express even a doubt of its entire truth would be nearly sacrilege in the minds of many. Nevertheless I shall adhere to that which proof has established, though I should stand alone to the end.
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