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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1CONTENTS
3CHAPTER X
4IMITATION OLD MASTERS
5Ancient copyists—Genuineness of their work—Forgery thrust upon them—The substitution of labels—All the great makers copied—Difficulties of detection—Genuine labels of the masters in the copies—Tone of the copies—Another class of copyist—Those who imitated age—Their object in so doing—Process of ageing destructive of tone—Honesty of these "fakes"—Another class: the factory imitation—Deceive only the ignorant—Another class: those intended to deceive—Their victims—Their danger to the player—A quotation from a letter and its lesson 58–61
7CHAPTER XI
8LITERATURE OF THE VIOLIN
9The authoritative histories of the old makers—Their chief value—Their status as guides to tone—The impressions they convey—The limitations of the authors—Their attitude towards the modern builder—The modern builder's "revenge"—The one idea which the player absorbs from these histories—The good faith of the authors—Their honesty of purpose—Their renown as connoisseurs and judges—The widespread influence of their work and its effect—Books on violin making—What they do and do not teach—A classical work—Instructions on how to play the violin—Their service—Their neglect of tone—The periodical literature of the fiddle—Its interest and value—Wherein it fails—A warning—The "Lives" of famous old makers—Their value 62–67
11CHAPTER XII
12WANTED: A TONE GUARANTEE
13The business of the dealer—What he guarantees—His attitude towards tone—The dealer's guarantee of no tone value to the player—The fiddle warranted but
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