john s. burdick from hamburg new-york made the improvements with this alluminium violin because the disadvantages and limitations of the wood instrument have long been recognized and the
art pertaining to the development of the viol and violin types has been characterized by infrequent and sporadic attempts to overcome these limitations by devising metal counterparts of these instruments. It has been heretofore proposed that aluminum is the metal which could be best adapted to the requirements of a metal instrument.