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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1not having the proper absolute values of coefficient of elasticity and density, it will not yield the "Cremona tone." Glass, yielding the same note as pine, will not make an equally good violin; there would be something radically wrong with its timbre.
3Pitch alone is evidently insufficient as a criterion of the quality of wood required, and we must seek for some further test.
5The following table, compiled from the records of experiments made by Chevandier and Wertheim,* contains the average values of the velocity of sound along the three "axes of elasticity" in fourteen different kinds
7* Loc. cit.
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