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Scan 5
Violins, old & new, 1887
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1VIOLINS;
2Old and New,
4I.
6ABOUT no musical instrument has so much been written, so much enthusiasm excited, so much information desired, and, we are obliged to add, so much nonsense talked and printed, as about the violin. The tone of a good violin is so wonderfully sympathetic, and in the hands of a master it is capable of such surprising effects, that a well-executed violin solo, with any kind of audience, will, to a certainty, "bring down the house" more effectually than any other performance. To explain why this is so is not our purpose here, though the fact will we think be admitted. Knowing how much depends upon the quality of the particular violin played upon, artists are careful to procure whenever possible a violin made in Italy by one of the most renowned makers of the end of the 17th or
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