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A Treatise On The Structure And Preservation Of The Violin, 1875
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1AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
3In the present age, Music forms one of the favourite occupations of polished society, and frequently affords the highest gratification, as well in the small domestic circle as in large assemblies. Parents of cultivated minds often expend much money in providing their children with a talented musical instructor, and spare no expense in the purchase of an instrument: but, unless possessed of sufficient knowledge to guide them, they are often exposed to gross imposition, as I have frequently observed in repairing instruments. Many parents, for instance, have given from six to ten pistoles for a violin which was scarcely worth as many dollars.
5In consideration of this, and as it is but reasonable to suppose that a man must be thoroughly acquainted with the business which he follows, I have been induced to draw up a minute description of the construction of the violin and all other bow-instruments, together with a careful explanation of the forms of the genuine Italian instruments, by which they may be clearly distinguished from the spurious imitations. I shall specify those makers who, next to the Cremonese, have produced the best instruments, and worked on the most correct mathematical principles, and shall treat at large of the rules which should be observed in repairing; because, through this,
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