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Scan 18
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1ples of the seventeenth-century model; but such "theories" are, for the most part, easily resolved into the bare statement that any departure from that model is detrimental to the tone of the instrument.
3But there is something beyond the model. The most casual reader of a text-book on the construction of the violin cannot fail to be struck by the vague, and even meaningless character of some of the rules that have been formulated on such an obviously essential matter as the selection of the wood of the instrument; and it is the object of the following notes to suggest one or two directions in which
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