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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1ment; and, again, he was a most forcible player, and his power of finger quite exceptional. Dragonetti, the famous Contra-basso player, and coadjutor of Lindley, possessed similar powers, and used similar strings as regards size. Their system of stringing was adopted indiscriminately. Instruments weakly or strongly built received uniform treatment, the result being in many cases an entire collapse and the most disappointing effects in the tone. It was vainly supposed that the ponderous strings of Dragonetti and Lindley were the talisman by use of which their tone would follow as a matter of course, whereas, in point of fact, it was scarcely possible to make the instruments utter a sound when deprived of the singular muscular power possessed by those famous players. After Lindley's death his system passed away gradually, and attention was directed to the better adaptation of strings to the instrument and also to the production of perfect fifths.
3We have now only to speak of covered strings, in which it is more difficult to obtain perfection than in the case of those of gut. There are several kinds of covered strings. There are those of silver wire, which are very durable, and have a soft quality of sound very suitable to old instruments, and are, therefore, much used by artists; there are those of copper plated, and also of copper without plating, which have a powerful sound; and, lastly, there are those which are made with mixed wire, an arrangement which prevents in a measure the tendency to
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