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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1CHAPTER VIII.
3THE APPEARANCE, QUALITIES, ETC., OF THE VIOLINS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MAKERS, INCLUDING AN EPITOME OF THE LIVES OF THOSE EMINENT ARTISTS.
5THE present work being only designed as an elementary treatise, space cannot be devoted to a lengthened memoir of each of the famed old artists, but a short and rapid glance at the appearance and qualities of their instruments, &c., must for the present suffice. The violins of Stradivarius (Anthony) are of the flat model, the elevation of curvature not being over five-eighths of an inch. It is now well known this model is the best adapted for the production of an intense, deep, and full tone—one reason being that instruments of this class have the wood always essentially thicker, and from this and the other proportions having been so harmoniously combined in the instruments of this maker, their unapproachable quality evidently was derived. In the flat model, the vibrations are always the most energetic and free; whilst in the highly elevated instrument, the tone is feeble, and very often thin and piercing. The first productions of Stradivarius were highly modelled—no doubt from his being still adherent to the form of his master, Nicolas Amati; and even those early instruments are known by the name of STRADIVARIUS AMATIS.
7His next instruments were of the flat and enlarged pattern, with the outlines, master-pieces of design, the
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