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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1veloped by the vibration of constant use; and of all the means that have been proposed for promoting this development, none is more rational than that of Otto, which may be described as "vibration by machinery." Whether this is an advisable proceeding, is another question; and the owner of a good violin would do well to consider the experiments of Wöhler and Spangenberg on the "fatigue" due to often-repeated stresses of small intensity, before submitting his instrument to any severe treatment of this kind. It is doubtful whether any solid is perfectly elastic, and it would seem that certain intervals of rest are required to allow of
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