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Violins, old & new, 1887
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1IV.
3THE battle of the old and new violins has been waged as fiercely and caused as many heart-burnings as the old feud between the MONTECCHI and the CAPULETTI in ancient Verona. The main points in this controversy have been thus stated by us in a preceding chapter. The modern school assent to these propositions; the old deny most of them most vigorously. When the above articles appeared, in the Musical Standard, we received many angry letters, asserting emphatically that it was impossible any maker could equal STRADIVARIUS and GUARNERIUS; that modern makers could not get "the tone," though they may imitate the appearance of the old masters, and much more to the same effect. These people were so convinced on the point, so certain that no one would ever equal the Cremonese, and so prejudiced against anything new, that had a specimen of the best work of the golden age of Cremona been produced to them as the work of JOHN DAY, of London, they would have
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