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Scan 47
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1recovery after strain. Carried sufficiently far, it would be theoretically possible by this means to "shake a violin to pieces."
3Savart has undoubtedly contributed more than anyone to our knowledge of the principles of the violin; the modern treatise on the subject contains in fact little more than a réchauffé of the conclusions arrived at by that industrious experimenter. Unfortunately he set himself the gigantic task of improving on the model of the Italian makers before attempting to solve the problem of why it was that he could not make an equally good instrument on the same model; and all his work shows him to have been
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