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Catalog of Rare Old Violins, Violas and Violoncellos: Also Bows of Rare Makes, 1916
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1play a few measures." By this he meant that the quality of tone possessed by the artist was a sure index of the violin he had used in his student days. If the tone of that instrument had been hard, stiff and non-elastic, that of the mature player took on the same quality; and although it might be very much improved by the instrument used in his concert work, yet there always remained that lack of beautiful tone color—that musical feeling which identifies the true artist.
3Our Collection this year contains an unusual number of attractive and interesting specimens of the work of the great Italian makers, some of which are truly remarkable. An added feature and an equally interesting one is the large number of excellent violins at medium prices, made possible largely by the European War. We wish to call the attention of concert violinists to the exceptional opportunities now afforded for the selection of fine instruments. We have never had such a large number of magnificent concert violins at moderate prices.
5Owing to our long experience, and the extraordinary care exercised by us in the selection, our violins are better in point of preservation than those of houses less fortunate, and the genuineness of Lyon & Healy violins is accepted everywhere. Constant application of these principles for many years has resulted in the bringing together of a number of the choicest, purest, best conditioned violins in the world today. While one or two European firms may, from time to time, exhibit more famous individual instruments than are contained in the Lyon & Healy collection, no one of them—it would be found by any competent judge willing to make the investigation—possesses a stock so comprehensive and so entirely representative of the very best the world offers in all classes of violins.
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