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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making, 1899
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1uncertain whether or not I had discovered it. I now acknowledge I did not do so, and at the same time declare my conviction that Mr. Colton, of Brooklyn, has done so. And after all it proves to have been an open secret—no secret at all. I have discovered that all the talk about amber in the Cremona varnish was all nonsense. It contained no amber."
3Mr. Colton obtained undoubted evidence that the Cremona varnish was used three hundred years ago by all fine workmen in wood, not only on violins, but "on flutes, virginals, clavrichords, tables, chairs, etc."
5This evidence, with other of like import, added to my own researches, is all the proof I, for one, require to satisfy me that amber had no part in the Cremona varnish; in fact, chemical analysis has settled that point definitely. Neither was the varnish in any sense a lost art.
7It has been claimed by modern writers and others that it was an oil varnish. I have searched to find some creditable evidence to support this claim, but candor compels me to admit that such proof has not been presented in anything it has been my privilege to read. If one will read carefully where this question is discussed, he will find that the evidence pre-
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