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Books › The varnishes of the Italian violin-makers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their influence on tone;, 1904 › scan 58

Scan 58

The varnishes of the Italian violin-makers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their influence on tone;, 1904

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1may be one of the reasons for increase of rigidity, but it cannot apply to the sclerenchymatous cells of wood, which are much affected by accessions of moisture (such as absorption from the atmosphere) which are quite insufficient to fill the cells; in this case the increase in rigidity must be ascribed to that thickening of the cell-walls by the absorption of moisture which is known as turgidity.
3We have before us a succulent plant constructed of cells in various forms. The tapered stem is erect; the branches are either horizontal or slightly removed from the horizontal position upwards or downwards or bending in graceful curves; attached to these branches, by appropriate stalks or petioles, are broad leaves expanded in planes approximately horizontal.
5Arrangements are made to cut off the usual supply of water to the absorbent roots of the plant. Evaporation continues from the leaves until the water in the cells is dissipated in the surrounding air. The stem is now no longer able to support the weight of the organs attached to it—it bends and inclines to one side; the branches decline from their usual position; the leaves become flaccid and droop.
7Water is again supplied to the roots; in a short time the plant resumes its original graceful form.
9These phenomena are, of course, due to the loss and recovery by the cells of that stiffness or rigidity which has been already ascribed to the presence of water. It must be evident, however, that if each individual cell occupied an isolated position no such effect could be produced; it is essential that the cells should be firmly attached to each other by some agglutinating substance, sufficient to cause adhesion

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