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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1singularly capable of responding to the slender cuttings that constituted his finishing touches to the instrument, there is no cause for surprise in the failure of the copyist who stops short at a mathematically exact copy, especially if he is using a wood that the Italian maker might very possibly have rejected as unfit for violin-making; a wood perhaps physically incapable of reinforcing the full series of over-tones that go to build up the timbre of the "Italian tone."
3A violin-maker of high repute recently showed the writer an exceedingly well made and well varnished violin of his own make. The price asked for this
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