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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

HORACE PETHERICK VIOLIN REPAIR MANUAL AND GUARNERI

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26878/26878-h/26878-h.htm

This is a choice discussion, even someone named Roger Hargrave got involved, maybe the real one:

https://maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/330360-violin-restoration-ethics-cannibalizing-old-instruments/&page=3

They tend not to criticize Petherick's Guarneri book too much, most of them. They try to defend him, as a product of the knowledge of his time. Etc. 

I think he was asked and paid to write this book, by the editors of The Strad, who sponsored it, who had used him as a trusted expert witness in the past, and who also had interests in the trade, to intentionally mislead not only retail customers, but also, probably, other merchants everywhere as well.

It seems to me that they succeeded in that, with Petherick's book, even down to the present moment.

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