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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1spicuous by any marked excellence in this respect.
3As to the varnish, this may be removed and a substitute provided, without altogether destroying the "Italian tone"; and the same may be said of the neck, bass-bar and sound-post.
5Coming now to the fifth qualification, it is not difficult to believe that quality of wood and quality of tone must be most intimately related. No two vibrating substances, even of the same species, yield precisely the same tone. In each there is a difference, either in the number or in the intensity of its overtones constituting its own peculiar timbre; a difference quite distinct
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