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Scan 16
Antonio Stradivari, 1900
2 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1done by means of proportion, form and colour, not setting aside the essentials of refined sonority, were combined, each aiding in the grand total and producing that known and so much sought after at the present day—a beautiful Italian violin. For about a century or more many Italian liutaros were busily engaged in sending forth under competition works which are now by the cognoscenti treated as unrivalled excellence of quality, classical, and the outcome of genius. Each worker being anxious to maintain the standard of excellence, or take a step forward in the practice of their art, the culminating point seems to have been reached when the artist under consideration in the following pages was executing his masterpieces in Cremona.
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