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Fiddle frauds and how to detect them, 1894
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1PREFACE.
3It is not my intention in this little pamphlet to give a history of the violin and its most prominent makers of different periods—such histories have been written by the score. Its main purport is to show how little justified is the deep-rooted prejudice in favour of old violins of real or supposed Italian make.
5I shall disclose how such fiddles are actually manufactured, and give some hints by which the merest tyro may discover whether an instrument is in reality what it pretends to be, viz., a valuable specimen of the old Italian school, or merely an inferior imitation.
7Such hints, I think, will be found generally valuable, but especially so to intending purchasers, who I trust will receive my suggestions in the spirit in which they are tendered.
9W. WOLFF.
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