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in the past, young artists would study with a master artist to learn from him. They would copy his art in an attempt to gain his skill and wisdom and he was right there guiding them. Art historians are often able to identify these copies, but not always. As a result, there’s sometimes the risk that a collector will purchase an art piece attributed to a master when it was, in fact, his student’s work.
The type of evidence that Schlosser uses in this excerpt is anecdotal. By definition, anecdotal evidence is based on stories that may or may not be true but due to lack of hard facts. They are usually based on personal stories. In this case, there is no proof that things mentioned in the excerpt happened the way that they were described.
Musical instruments of different types playing the same note may often be identified by the timbre of their sounds. Timbre is tone color, or tone quality which distinguishes different types of sound production.
