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A Treatise On The Structure And Preservation Of The Violin, 1875
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1TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
3TO THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS.
5The favourable reception accorded to the first edition of this translation having occasioned a demand for a second, I have sought to render it still more interesting to the violinist, and to musical readers generally, by the addition of numerous particulars, inserted either in foot notes or in the Appendix, and culled from a variety of works and detached articles on the subject of this treatise; most of which, having been published either in French or German, were unlikely to come under the notice of English musicians.
7But, in the whole range of musical literature, perhaps no works are so indifferently viewed, and even decried, as those which treat of the construction of musical instruments. It is true this chiefly proceeds from the very persons for whom such works are not intended—the makers or repairers of the respective instruments; though even many professors and amateurs fall into a similar erroneous estimate of such books, either because the particulars found in them do not suffice to make them manufacturers, or because such particulars chance to differ from some previous knowledge which they possess.
9As regards the former objection, it may be confidently answered, that books alone cannot possibly fulfil such expectations; and, as to the latter, it is a well-known fact that
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