The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-13


| ironwoed-of sevSrals other Varieties
, To- day they ar. made Of q South Ameri-
! can redwood. hat N In called Pernam-
buco from thu port from which 10 ~
shipped. Bows become tempered. '-d,i-
| Gated. with time and Use. so that a man =
bow becomes almost as precious to him
/ n his fiddle itself
a genuine Tuort how will bring per-
| haps $3.50. but Of course that IL paying
for rarity as well as quality, II Tuort
were making bows now he would proba-
| bly, be getting s. or 81 for them. The
curve Of bow IL given to IL by heat and
/ N IL loses that curve We can yet " again by
the same process that was used IN the
beginning.
The great miracle IN the story Of the
violin ia that II ~ practically the same
instrument to-day that " was over 3n1
I years ago when Casparo da Salo made the
/ first one, The finish the Workmanship
has improved. hut the principles "a is
construction are the Same And that -
true in spite OF the fact that every vislin
maker of those 3OO years has az sonne time
l in his career been possessed by an aInbi
] ton Ia improve on the violin rs il stands.
4 Il have tried IL. Every maker has tria'i
4 1t. Scores of men have worn oIr' their
lives in the effort. IL Is quite true
have seen AT least 500 specimens Of these
experimental designs. and some 81 them
| are the Craziest notions that ever Matched
/ in the human brain have seen violin
7
OF strings under the ordinary set. viOlins
| with strings inside as well n outside.
violins with meta. comb inside such
I as you see in a music boz. violins with
| double posts violins with Hat tops, violins
without any openings and others with
openings Of strange shapes.
There il no end to these wild imagin-
ings but the violin Of the twentieth
century remains in principle the same as
that 81 the Italian inventor. and he was
born in Salo in 1850. IL has been inn
proved The violin Of Da Salo this family
name was Bertoletti) had a more arched
top than IA seen to-day, That gave II
very sweet tone. but one that did not carry
well. Stradivarius made a fatter top,
which produces a more tenor note with
| better carrying power.
4 And the lines have grown more beau
tif,ll. the workmanship more finished.
A fine violin is more than musical in
strument. IL il a picture. thing TO be
regarded with pleasure. like statue or a
monument. Mere age does not make a
violin perfect. Ifit was clumsy and badly
made in the beginning there IL no magic
! in time that will remedy these defects.
And neither are all the violins old that
are passed of as old. There are many
fakes. and even good musicians are some
times deceived. | know a player in the
Damrosch orchestra who paid $40 for q
have bought better one for SIS right here
Eighty dollars was not a big price Of
course AZ prices go. There In no hard
and fast schedule for fiddles. IA there Is
| for hatcbets or rubber overxhoes. A
man comes along who paws a 600 for a
! fiddle And another ons. inst "a good ia
s"Id nv some moor devil ~ maker for
$50. That is art. good violin maker
brings from a capricio,,s public. We,
,ha man who nav. a on for a fiddle-a
rotiern one mind yo,,,-may be quite
r;gb, II NAV ba the ON. instrument in
ali ,ha worId that i,,st' suits him, Its
nrornr,;ons ia color ia 'fasl ia re-
ssnons. /, ,,,. him 10 tho spalls,.t nicely
and N ba can affor,i a, OoO il il W eli worth
,ha ,r;ca
mr., ,here are MANY parsons who nav
fooi;sh suUs for inSar;or instrI,mep,s
Lnn,,, ~ nm I,ld fellow m in n New ENGLAND
49, ~ Ill ,,;"I;rs - GOO a,,;.r., ard
,bsy are nor worth = tenth 81 that sum
7 Enow n IN ,rer down in Ken,ucky who
- , hnrd,.d a,llars ard thew in !,
S,rs. ar anm.,h;ng liza that for a fiddle
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