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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1tobacco plant admit of a succession of crops which do not require a century to mature; otherwise we should now be worse off for fine-flavoured claret and cigars than we are for fine-toned violins.
3Importance is attached by violin-makers to the selection of wood that is "not too hard and not too soft"; "grown on a southern slope"; "cut from the south side of the tree," etc., etc.; some of which conditions, even to the sojourn in the "Swiss châlet," have a sort of raison-d'être; but the food which built up the cells of the tree would seem to be of at least equal importance.
5The salt deposits of the Tyrol
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