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Scan 51
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1that three rods of pine and two rods of maple should in both cases give exactly the same note. The experiments of Chevandier and Wertheim* show that this perfect coincidence is very rarely found even in test pieces from the same tree; and then only when cut from the same annual rings, and at the same height above the ground.
3However this may be, the following experiment, recently made by the writer, would seem to show that the record given of Savart's experiments is probably substantially correct.
5A piece of Swiss pine and a
7* Mémoire sur les Propriétés mécaniques du Bois. Paris, 1848.
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