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Scan 18
Violins, old & new, 1887
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3FASHION and prejudice are strong opponents of the true and beautiful, whether in art, science, commerce, or religion; and we know not whether of the two is the stronger, the prejudice which prevents truth being accepted, or the fashion which sets up and perpetuates a false ideal. We think both prejudice and fashion have done a great deal of harm in connection with the most fascinating of all musical instruments—the violin.
5Something more than a century and a half ago there lived in the city of Cremona a maker of fiddles, by name ANTONIO STRADIVARIUS, who made instruments so surpassingly good that neither for tone nor beauty of appearance have they ever been excelled. He experimented for many years, and gradually altered the shape of his instruments until he had quite forsaken the model which in his master's workshop he had been taught was the best, and produced fiddles which science demonstrates to be made of the material and in the shape most conducive to power
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