fiddle-hunting

Updated: August 18, 2026

Those who have suffered much from the Italian fiddle-hunting mania a condition mostly chronic or quite incurable but who may have kept their "considerating cap" well poised on their head, will know that the worm-eaten fiddles are often devoid of evidence of usage, sometimes even in the absolute sense of the term.

Horace Petherick - The Repairing & Restoration of Violins: 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.