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Scan 25
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1find the superiority of tone which distinguishes the work of those great makers; and which gives one an idea of what the tone of those dilapidated instruments would be if they had escaped the attentions of the unscrupulous and incompetent repairer, and had been handed down to us in something like the condition in which they left their maker's hands.
3Since the days of Savart the same story has repeatedly been told; but where, may one ask, are these "more scientific," and (now) more than a little matured instruments? And why is it that the "Cremona tone" and the "Italian tone" remain to this day as household words?
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