FINE VIOLINS
MADE BY A GERMAN KNIFEGRINDER High qualify violins, said to have been built on the same principle as the famous Stradivarius, Amati, Guarnerius and other classical instruments, are being turned out at Berlin by Ernst Grab, a former knife and scissors grinder. That Grah has really hit upon a valuable idea in constructing violins resembling in tone their classical prototypes, is confirmed by such violinists as Professor Arnold Rose and Karl Wendling and the physicist Dr. Seyffert. After long search for the secret, to which the violins of the old Italian masters owed their beauty ol' tone. Grah decided that the only factor that could have improved the tone of these instruments iu the course of centuries was the pressure exerted by the bridge through the tautly stretched strings leading to a compression of the violins sound box. This compression Gray says he is able to Imitate artificially, is able to imitate artificially.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1028, 19 July 1930, Page 30
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155FINE VIOLINS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1028, 19 July 1930, Page 30
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