Excerpt from Dwight's Journal of Music, 1877: A Paper of Art and Literature For these reasons, the propagation of correct views concerning the violin manufacture, and its' development, has also a practical side; indeed, it is the inevitable condition supposed in raising it again to that elevation which, strangely en'ough, it occa pied at a time when the demand for perfect instru ments was neither so extensive nor intensive by far as it is at the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.