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Show VIOLINS OF HIGH PRICE Add 45 Per Cent, to Their Cost and Americans Go Without The pi lees In ICutope Tor old violins aio ery hlub and are the same hi every city nud the dealms don't seem to care If thoy hull them or nof. ?8,0Q0 to $10,000 Is a regular prlcw for a Stvadivarlus. and third class Italian violins eost more than $1,000. August (ieiuundei' ays,'ln tho Violin World that no dealer In this country can pay such fancy prices and pay Uncle Sam 4& per cent, duty besides. He urges that the duty be greatly reduced, re-duced, ir not tnken off entirely, on old violins, so the dealer can purchase Home of the instruments abroad. At It now Ib, almost all Arauricain who study abroad buy their violins abroad also and hi lug them Into the United States without paying one cent of duty. This Is not fair for the dealers deal-ers hen1, says Mr. (leiuunder. Judging by tho prices asked for old vlollna abroad, one would thing that Europe Is collecting the duty that tho United States places ou stringed Instruments. |