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Chats on violins, 1905
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 167. See the scan on archive.org.
1you are at home try and keep your violin always in the same place, and select a corner where the wall is neither hot nor damp, and where there is no draught.
3Another very necessary point for the preservation of your fiddle's health is to have a good case to keep it in; the case should be strongly made of wood, and should be constructed so as to shut closely. If you have a valuable violin an outside cover of mackintosh cloth to strap over is necessary for greater protection from damp.
5The next thing you must look after are your strings; do not leave them on too long or they become dry and hard and will cease to give clear sounds. Of course this remark does not apply to the E string—for this highest and finest of the four strings breaks easily—but only to the thicker ones, the A D and G, which last months. When you buy strings don't go to a piano or music shop for them, but to the best fiddle-maker you can find, for the manufacture of violin strings is just as varied as the manufacture of violins: good, bad, and indifferent. Be specially careful where you purchase them, for a poor string will do much towards spoiling your fiddle's tone. The finest strings
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