preservativeness

Updated: May 14, 2025

Innumerable as have been the varieties of style, shape and arrangement of violin cases, there is still an opportunity for a new, good and useful one that shall combine all or most of the requirements as regards utility, portability, preservativeness and nice appearance.

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