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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1CHAPTER VIII.
3VIOLIN ACOUSTICS.
5The celebrity which the Cremonese violins acquired about the beginning of the present century attracted the attention of savants as well as that of amateurs and connoisseurs, and one distinguished man, who combined in his own person these three qualifications, set himself to ascertain the causes of the superiority which the Italian instruments possessed above all others. This scientist was M. Felix Savart, and, as his experiments were performed upon some of the finest productions of Stradivari and Guarnerius, it will be as well at this stage to give some account of the chief results obtained. His preliminary experiments were made by what, in the science of acoustics, are called "Chladni's figures," and he began by formulating that the construction of string instruments is based upon the reinforcement of the sound of a body by the vibrations of other bodies with which the first is in immediate, or even intermediate, contact, in accordance with the principle that when a vibrating body is in immediate contact with
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