

Reproduction of the original: Violin Making by Walter H. Mayson

Reproduction of the original: Violin Making by Walter H. Mayson

Book Excerpt: ...onvinces me of the unworthiness of the wood for a violin of high class (or of any violin destined to live), let me put it to a still more searching one, in fact, to two, neither of which, I venture to assert, will it bear.I clamp it to the bench and proceed to...


Many admirable works on this interesting subject have appeared in several languages, but, to my mind, in a form too sternly technical, cold, if I may be allowed-the writers barely in touch with the anxious youth or man, who, as amateur, yearns to get at that knowledge of correct...
