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A catalogue of the Lyon & Healy collection of rare old violins, violas, viloncellos, bows of rare makes, 1929

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1THE Partello COLLECTION
3OVERS of the violin are forever destined to hold in highest esteem the name of Dwight J. Partello. To him posterity owes the assemblage, preservation and heritage of what has been pronounced one of the finest gatherings of violin treasures achieved in modern times.
5The Partello Collection, which Mr. Partello was nearly forty years in assembling, was exhibited at the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893, upon the request, we understand, of the United States Government. At that time he was U. S. Consul to Germany.
7His house in Berlin was the magnet which drew to musicales and soirees given by him, the great artists of the world to join in the rendering of the various forms of chamber music. What a musical feast for the artist! "Professor, will you use the Duke of Edinburgh Strad or the Lord Nelson in the Mozart quartet?" "Mr. Ysaye, would you prefer the Spanish Strad or the Lord Falmouth Bergonzi?" We can picture Joachim or some other celebrity thrilling those present with the Bach Chaconne, using, we fancy, the Duke de Camposelice Joseph Guarnerius del Jesu, and the lovers of the cello listening to the marvelous voice of the Duke of Edinburgh Tecchler in a sonata for piano and cello.
9The performers had some twenty-seven masterpieces from which to select the instrument possessing just the quality of tonal coloring which they desired in interpreting the work in hand. There were four violins by Stradivarius in the collection, a Joseph Guarnerius, three Amatis, one Bergonzi, a Guadagnini, three Gaglianos, Nicolas, Ferdinandus, and Januarius, one Lupot, a

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