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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
7 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 261. See the scan on archive.org.
1inside of a violin, and a heavy weight be laid on the outside of the upper table, the tone is not changed from what it was prior to the removal of the sound-post.
3I think these are the most important points settled by Savart's laborious researches, and I am not aware that violin acoustics has been investigated any more fully since his day. Perhaps Dr. Helmholtz may still farther advance them, but it is not every savant who possesses the qualifications of Savart, who, as I said before, was a distinguished physicist, a violin connoisseur, a violin performer, and last but not least, a violin maker. one of two readings
4I think these are the most important points settled by Savart's laborious researches, and I am not aware that violin acoustics has been investigated any more fully since his day. Perhaps Dr. Helmholz may still farther advance them, but it is not every savant who possesses the qualifications of Savart, who, as I said before, was a distinguished physicist, a violin connoisseur, a violin performer, and last but not least, a violin maker. one of two readings
6Stradivari, like almost all the Cremonese makers of his period, and, indeed, long after, selected his pine from the Tyrol. I have no doubt there was, and still is, some quality in the timber grown there which recommended it to their attention. The density, elasticity, and durability of wood depend so much upon the soil in which it has been grown, that it may be useful to offer one or two remarks on these points, as I am not aware that this has been done elsewhere in connection with violins. In the district whence this wood chiefly came there are vast beds of salt, and in the mines of Hall alone there are between fifty and sixty caverns, in some of which the galleries of salt extend for upwards of three leagues in length. This peculiar character of the soil would, doubtless, by a natural aspirative process, affect the quality of the timber; and it is a curious circumstance in this conjunction that of all the foreign substances which have from time to time been employed for the preservation of
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