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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1the superiority of these old instruments in the latter capacity?
3There are two distinct opinions on this question. By some it is held to be merely a matter of time, and that with age and use the modern violin is to acquire that beauty of tone which for two centuries has characterized the early Italian and Tyrolese instruments.
5Others again believe that as regards tone and varnish, violin-making is a lost art; that the old masters in fact possessed something in the nature of a secret; or (as certainly seems quite possible) that the true causes of their success were unknown to them.
7About three-quarters of a cen-
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