Books › 41894.j.1 – Description du suberbe violon de Stradivarius / Georges Mougenot., 1894 › scan 20
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41894.j.1 – Description du suberbe violon de Stradivarius / Georges Mougenot., 1894
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1This violin is from the second epoch of the master, when he made the famous Tuscan Stradivarius, which belongs to MMrs. Hill, from London. Its work is as fine as the latter's and is as good as all the violins which he made during a period of his life considered as more glorious with respect to the beauty of the varnish and the sonority; besides, it is perfectly preserved.
3The splendid yellow, gilt brown varnish, which is preserved in almost all the parts of the instrument, possesses its whole brilliancy just like if it was coming out of the lute-maker's hands.
5Since the beginning of the present century, this beautiful Stradivarius belonged to one of the greatest families of Belgium (Viscount de Bioley, a great manufacturer of Verviers). The viscount left it to his grandson, the count van der Straeten-Ponthoz, from Brussels. This proprietor
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