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Scan 44
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1A noted authority on the violin has remarked on the wonderful simplicity of the instrument. "It seems to scorn complication in its structure, and successfully holds its own in its simplicity."*
3This is true only in the sense in which the horse is "an animal with a head at one end, a tail at the other, and a leg at each
5be a logarithmic curve. We may perhaps be thankful that François Tourte and John Dodd were unfettered by any knowledge of such a curve. The "continuous beam" and the "solid of equal resistance" are also fine ideal conceptions, but nature refuses to supply the perfectly homogeneous material.
7* The Violin. By G. Hart. London, 1887.
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