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Scan 59
Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1flexure), and the density, may be—and indeed in the case of pine and steel actually are—very different.
3As the writer has proved (curiously enough on a first trial) it is easy to find a piece of pine possessing very nearly the same conductivity of sound along its "fibres"* as that employed by Stradivari; and yet, for all we know, that distinguished maker would have used this wood to heat his glue-pot, simply because,
5* The pitch of the note obtained by the transverse vibration of the rod having its length in the direction of the "fibres," is that due to the longitudinal elasticity. Transverse vibration must not be confounded with transverse elasticity referred to further on.
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