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Scan 24
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1… can possibly deny that these new instruments will be, when a little matured by age, far sweeter and finer than any of the time-withered, tampered-with, over-repaired and dilapidated instruments which flood the market under the names of Stradivari, of Guarneri, of Amati, of Ruggerius, of Stainer, of Bergonzi, and a hundred lesser names."*
3All this is quite true, but rather beside the mark. It is only in the comparatively few, but tolerably sound and unmutilated, instruments—which, by the way, do not flood the market—that we
5* Violin-Making: as it was and is. By E. Heron-Allen, London, 1885.
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