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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1and the blue so coveted by connoisseurs in china."
3On and on go the theorists, but the answer to their conjectures is simple: none of them as yet made the varnish!
5Meanwhile old Nicolo and his apprentices are at work in the Cremono workshop, toiling anxiously and swiftly, albeit with the most exquisite and painstaking care, lest one moment of golden daylight and still more golden time be wasted, by a mistake, a hesitation, or a second's distraction. Here under the veteran Amati's aged but watchful eyes every hour takes on the value of a jewel, and such dreams as may be dreamed in this quiet, work-filled place are those that may fit worthily between corner-block and belly, bridge and bass bar, sound-post and back.
7The old Cremonese saying is: "Given: a log of wood; make: a fiddle." Here are the logs of wood, and here the fiddles; and here, too, are the masters who solved that quaint old problem.
9Edward Heron-Allen, maker and student of fiddles, has given the following succinct description of the violin:
11"Let us look at the tout-ensemble of a fiddle. What is it? It is a hollow box, from thirteen to fourteen inches in length; at the widest point
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