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The Violin: How to Master It, 1880
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1Where to Get Good Strings.
3Supposing the player not to be seriously affected in this way, and inclined to use the gut strings, the question arises, "where to get the best possible string at the lowest possible price?" Here I can give him some assistance. I have ordered from dealers all over the country and nowhere have I been so well suited as by the strings from Elias Howe, 88 Court St., Boston. Here one can find at all times, every kind of strings of the best quality, at fair prices. Howe's Genuine Italian Mountain Gut Strings I find to be the most perfect and satisfactory violin strings that I ever used. They are made exclusively for Mr. Howe by the best string maker in Italy, and have a wonderful strength and purity of tone combined with a quality that I have hitherto found lacking in Italian violin strings; that is, "great durability." You may say I am praising these strings too much, but after a lifetime devoted to music, during which period unreliable violin strings have often caused a ruffling of temper, expense and much inconvenience, when a musician does find a durable, fine-toned Italian violin string such as the Mountain Gut Strings have proved to be in my experience with them, he is only too happy to recommend the same to all his friends, thereby saving them the trouble he has experienced, and I trust I can count on all my readers as friends.
5For many or most amateurs the strength of a string is its most important requirement, and strength with clearness of tone is sought after by all the professionals or dance-players; for such I particularly recommend Mr. Howe's No. 19 E violin string. Mr. Howe advertises this as the Strongest E Violin String in the World, and I have found it to hold the best of any string that I ever used, besides being excellent in tone and tune.
7A novelty lately introduced by Mr. Howe, is the Genuine Italian Colored Violin String. They are composed of strands
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