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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1That even Stradivari should have possessed a secret, in the sense that he withheld his knowledge from his pupils, is of course highly improbable; but it is also obvious that he could not impart to them his own power of observing and appreciating the effect of every little alteration he made in the course of bringing his instruments to such perfection. He certainly knew that he was making the finest violins the world had ever seen (there was no question of waiting for them to mature); and he also knew that the success of his instruments was chiefly due to certain improvements of form and dimen-
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