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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1VIOLIN TONE
3type is found in a high state of perfection in some of the instruments of his followers, and in not a few violins by modern makers.
5It may be thought that other great makers should be credited with the creation of a tone-type; but I think their violins will, in tone, be found to fall into one or another of the groups named above, varying only according to the ideals and individuality of the several makers.
7I shall now investigate the relationship between tone and the old instruments, and explain why a master of tone was not always a master of handicraft, and why many excellent workmen were unsuccessful as creators of a grand tone. In the next chapter, therefore, I deal with the old masters as violin makers.
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