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Scan 163
Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1OLD VIOLINS
3a few used a silk pocket-handkerchief. I much prefer it to this day; but something between the chin and the violin is no doubt good for the protection of old instruments already too much rubbed by centuries of beards and bristles.
5I have nothing to say against the various velvet, vulcanite, and ebony fixed substitutes for the homely pocket-handkerchief, except that in my eyes they are extremely ugly, and to my chin extremely uncomfortable; but I may be very much out of date, and in such minor matters "chacun à son goût," or, as Pepys would say, "there's an end on't."
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