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Scan 57
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1ferred to all other woods for the table of the violin, is because of its small density, its elasticity, and "because its resistance to flexion is greater than that of any other wood, and also than a great number of other substances even metallic; it is equal to that of glass and steel!"*
3There is evidently some confusion here. It is a great mistake to suppose that because a rod of pine and a rod of steel of the same dimensions yield the same note (and consequently that the velocity of sound is the same in the two substances), that these rods are therefore equal as re-
5* Vide Davidson, also Fétis, loc. cit.
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