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The varnishes of the Italian violin-makers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their influence on tone;, 1904
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1of the preparation of the varnishes; that the differences in their physical qualities arose from the same causes.
3On careful examination it will certainly be found that this new theory satisfies every one of the required conditions and fully explains all the observed facts.
5All that I ask from my readers is an impartial judgment on the evidence; magna est veritas, et prævalebit!
7It is conceived that my own opinion is now the less likely to be warped from the consideration that, although my researches originated in the varnish question, this has long since become subsidiary to other and more absorbing problems which have arisen, which have completely overshadowed the original one. From a scientific point of view (physiological and chemical), the constitution of the terpenes, whence they come and whither they go, are questions which will be fascinating long after the minor problem, of the constitution of the old varnishes and their influence on tone, has been set at rest.
9G. F.
11Berwick-on-Tweed, 1904.
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