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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1AND VIOLIN MAKERS
3volume of tone, and within human limits, repeat the process ad lib." It need hardly be pointed out that the old masters also laboured "within human limits." Apart from the specially good examples, the old violin makers of the second class produced in their instruments a quality of tone in every respect worthy of being termed Excellent.
5(3) Good Tone.—Within this category is a wide range of fiddles suitable for all ordinary uses, made in all ages of the art, but usually found among violins by old makers of the third class in Italy, those of the second class in France, Germany, and England. The tone of some of these violins deserves to rank as excellent, but here, again, is found a wide difference in fiddles by the same maker. In this class the inexperienced will also find difficulty in making a selection, and the advice of an expert should be secured.
7(4) "Just Fiddles."—Nameless, but "old" Italian, French, German, or English fiddles. Violins of all sorts, old and new, bearing unfamiliar names. The age-baked imitations by makers with and without repute. "Pawnshop" fiddles, manufactured to catch the eye of those seeking the rare but unrecognised! Factory-made "copies" of Amati, Guarneri, Stradivari, Stainer, etc. Numbered by thousands, such fiddles as these are carefully avoided by the
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