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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1which are formed throughout the instrument.
3May one not therefore apply to this problem a phrase of Tyndall's, and say that "the imagination retires baffled from any attempt to realize" the modes of vibration of the violin?
5The conclusion seems forced upon one that, given the model of the violin, the determination of the dimensions of its component parts must ever remain an empirical art, to be guided by the ear alone.
7There are many so-called theories on the form of the instrument, and nearly every treatise on the violin professes to explain the scientific princi-
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