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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1was found to make a good-toned instrument; and in such case he would no doubt, according to his means, lay in a stock of the wood, almost regardless of its appearance.
3This would account for the fact that the violins of certain makers, and from certain localities, show a preponderance of a wood of one particular pattern or "figure"; as well as certain minor variations in the quality of tone characteristic of the maker and of the birthplace of the instrument.
5It seems regrettable that Savart should have attached so little importance to the origin of the wood in the Italian instru-
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