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Scan 22
Chats on violins, 1905
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1them a noble struggle towards the graceful curves of the perfect Stradivarius form.
3The written history of the evolution of the violin is a very short one, but in reality it occupied about eight hundred years, and wonderful to relate, having once reached perfection, it has remained untouched by the progress which surrounds it. For three hundred years the violin has kept its present model, and attempted innovations have only proved that the task of alteration is as difficult and unavailing as improving Cologne Cathedral or remodelling a Greek statue.
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