FINE VIOLINS
Made by a German Knife-
grinder High-quality 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 Gral., a former knife and scissors grinder. That Grab 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 of tone, Grab decided that the only factor that could have improved the tone of these instruments in the course of centuries was the pressure exerted by the bridge through the tautly-stretched strings leading to a compression of the violin’s sound box. This compression Grab says he is able to imitate artificially.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 31
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149FINE VIOLINS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 31
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