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A Review Of Ancient And Modern Violin Making, 1899
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1I have no reverence for an error because of its age and general acceptance. All this cannot justify its existence. My researches along this line have established such convincing proof of these errors that the most skeptical must accept their existence as a fact, as has been the case with a number of gentlemen of high musical authority who have been watching my work and investigations for the last three years, and who now most thoroughly indorse my proof, although they were at first uncompromising believers in the mysterious power-giving quality of the Cremona varnish.
3When the old wood theory had failed to secure the success that was so confidently expected to follow its adoption, some of the more progressive began to look in other directions for a remedy. It is useless to follow the various methods resorted to in their attempts to overcome the supposed obstacles. A fine instrument was occasionally produced, but what they sought for was a uniform result. Failure to accomplish this has been the one insurmountable obstacle in all ages of violin making. When they produced a violin of high merit only to have the succeeding one a failure was a stupefying mystery for which the makers
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