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In the following pages will be found descriptions and prices of the greatest collection of old instruments — Violins, Cellos, Violas and Basses — ever offered the American public. A very important feature of this catalogue is the Historical Sketch of violin making and violin makers which precedes the catalogue proper. We consider that a knowledge of Violin literature is essential to the student and dilettante, particularly when contemplating the purchase of an instrument.

We have not mentioned all the makers of the different schools, but the reader will find all the really important names of the violin-making world, and for the less important makers, as also for more elaborate biographical sketches, we beg to refer him to the works named in the last pages of this catalogue.

If the perusal of these pages will enable the prospective purchaser to obtain a better idea of the relative values of old instruments, so that the interested "expert" or dealer will not be able to work off" modern stock as genuine old instruments, a custom only too common in this country, particularly in the East, as is forcibly illustrated by the records of a recent trial in the Courts of New York City, — all of which we very much deplore — we shall feel amply repaid for the time spent in its compilation, and believe with the Latin poet,"Finis Coronat Opus.

After more than eight years of extensive research on the varnish used by the Italian Violin Makers from to A. This is due entirely to the unavailability of samples of the varnish for confirmatory analysis. Violins made by the Italian masters of this period are so valuable and so scarce that a small sample of the varnish has not been procurable for experimental purposes.

Therefore, synthesis must precede analysis. First, possibly the findings will be confirmed, or otherwise, by investigators who may be more fortunate in having access to material from authentic violins made by the old masters.

Confirmatory chemical tests will be suggested; it should be comparatively simple, especially through modern micro-analytical methods, to determine the presence of certain constituents in the varnish.

The subject matter of this book will of necessity become technical, especially when the theoretical aspects are considered. Warmer, Set up from what i can tell and historically read about in older issues of Strad. While there is an Italian school, would it be via Paris? During my wanting-to-play period instrument days, i was lent a Cuypers, which i really disliked. It had a strange arching which i was unable to "feel" but working with stepped dynamics of keyboardists, it had a wonderful clear quality even though it felt i was skating over the strings.

Without vibrato, it was almost glassy in tone. There was a man from London in the ensemble who would always comment on how the Cuypers sounded like an English instrument. I think he was making fun and in my naivete, i took him seriously. Of course, it was not how I had imagined the sound and it puzzled me. To this day, i have no idea what he meant. Maybe it was a joke. At the time i had an inexpensive Hill which was sold to a dealer. It was warm and friendly and full, and I thought of those qualities as being the English sound.

Anything certificated to a purple dinosaur could be collectible. Dunno about the sound, though. Joseph Hill, Lockey Hill - not my thing. Hesketh is in my view another maker whose stylistic gifts outweighed his understanding of tone. The idea that there's an "English sound" is absurd - one English violin will be wiry and plangent, another fuzzy and dark, another flute-like and sophisticated.

Why do I keep thinking about "The great British baking show"? Maybe we could change this topic into that format. Currently reading "The Violin Makers" by Alberger. All in all not a bad read. Always wondered about Luff violins. Never seen or played one.

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