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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1ments. He might otherwise have been led to investigate this subject with a greater chance of throwing some light on the matter that could be hoped for nowadays. He strongly advocated the pine from the Vosges and the sycamore from the Ardennes, and considered the Tyrolese pine to be "of too uniform a density": yet this was the wood of the Italian makers.
3Good wood is of course no panacea for defective dimensions; and there are reasons for believing that one of the chief merits of the old instruments lies in an accurate adjustment of the form and dimensions of the tables and sound-holes in accordance with
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