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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1some cause—the elasticity of the materials, for instance—entirely unknown to the American designer.
3The whole history of the violin points to a gradual evolution of the instrument, brought about by tentative and empirical methods of "trial and error," aided at times—as, for example, in the case of the bass-bar and sound-post—by the fortuitous success of alterations and additions originally introduced for totally different purposes to those which they now serve.*
5* Strangely enough Savart remarks that "so slender a rod of dry wood (the sound-post) would be of little use for strengthening purposes."—Vide a trans-
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