FINE VIOLINS
A LADE BY A GERMAN KNIFEGRINDER. 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 Elrnst Grah, a former knife and scissors grinder. That Grab has really hit upon a valuable idea in constructing violins resembling iu tone their classical prototypes. is confirmed by sucli violinists as Professor Arnold Rose and! Karl, Wend,ling 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. iu 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 Grah savs he is able to imitate artificiallv.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 July 1930, Page 7
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149FINE VIOLINS Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 July 1930, Page 7
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