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Old violins, 1905
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1CHAPTER XI
3VIOLIN BOWS
5He who wields the violin bow aright wields the wand of a magician. If ever mortal could call the spirits from the vastly deep, it is the virtuoso who throws into sympathetic vibrations the cords of a Cremona.
7The wood of his wand, from the forests of Fernambuc or Pernambuco, choice and seasoned, and delicately graduated and tapering, receives through the varying pressure of his five fingers the waves of his personal magnetism.
9The back of his thumb will often touch even the hairs which are in direct contact with the strings, and therefore the psychic and emotional vibrations of the artist's soul are wedded closely to the physical pulses of sound which throb in the agitated air column of the Cremona, and flow forth in the air waves (like light and heat), filling space with their musical magnetism, and seeking only the medium of kindred spirits and suitable organisms to utter through the vibrating human nerve tissues of others the open secrets of the player's soul.
11No Mesmer, or magician of the East, controls a more subtle force than does the violinist, who, face to face
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