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Chats to violin students on how to study the violin, 1895
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 51. See the scan on archive.org.
1CHAPTER VI.
3Violin Makers—The Italian School.
5IN writing about the "Makers of Violins," to which subject I shall now devote myself, it will be well to commence with the old Italian violins and makers as these stand so pre-eminently in the first rank. Mr. Hart, in his book on the violin, says the earliest information we have of the true violin is in the second half of the sixteenth century.
7The perfection of make of our modern violin was reached in the seventeenth century by the Stradivarius and Guarnerius families, pioneered in the sixteenth century by Andræ Amati, working in Cremona, which can well be called the cradle of the art.
9Much of the success of their work is due to the mathematical correctness and perfect proportion in their work, accuracy in which particulars is so conducive to a full and powerful tone. The most important items in the making of a violin are the choice of wood, the correct (absolute and mathematical) dimensions of the various parts, and the resonance and transparency of
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