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Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737)

W. HENRY HILL ARTHUR F. HILL, F.S.A. AND ALFRED E. HILL. London: MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited, 1909.

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6 ANTONIO STRADIVARI Read
15 Commendatore Lozzi of Rome. To the late… Read
16 CONTENTS. Read
17 CONTENTS Read
18 carly makers—Where obtained—The making u… Read
19 Result of our researches to ascertain th… Read
21 There is no text on this page. Read
22 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT. Read
23 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT Read
24 INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO FIRST EDITION. Read
25 is no need to try to claim interest for… Read
29 1298 is derived from 'Strada averta' of… Read
33 remains that henceforth Alessandro, his… Read
49 Museum. As Signor Mandelli suggests, "th… Read
50 CHAPTER II. Read
51 completion), in writing of Stradivari, s… Read
52 his master; nor apparently did he again… Read
53 Stradivari had quitted the workshop of h… Read
54 tation gained by successive members of h… Read
55 have had their proper certificates of bi… Read
56 and research may perhaps enable us to de… Read
57 fact that a wooden rule or straight-edge… Read
58 brilliant genius endowed with the gifts… Read
59 are stiffer and less rounded, and especi… Read
60 be found. The maple is either rather pla… Read
61 Figs. 14 and 15.—Head of a Violin of the… Read
62 James II. of England.* What better evide… Read
63 M. Jan Kubelik, 1687; Read
64 edge and small purfling are thoroughly c… Read
65 the first time we see Stradivari making… Read
66 surpassed and few have equalled him. No… Read
67 placed in a direction slanting from righ… Read
68 MAGGINI INFLUENCE AND THE "LONG STRAD" 4… Read
69 tempting to attain the characteristic br… Read
70 accustomed to see the traditional Amati… Read
75 of Stradivari's life: the instrument kno… Read
76 is more open in the grain than hitherto:… Read
77 brought fairly close to the outer edge,… Read
78 form characteristic of 1700, are perhaps… Read
79 been continually transformed by differen… Read
80 during 1709 and the following years, but… Read
81 inevitable. Do not let this remark lead… Read
82 length, with full width and depth of sid… Read
83 well-known amateurs. Its proportions, as… Read
84 one which, in our opinion, ranks amongst… Read
85 that owned by M. Soil, dated 1714; the "… Read
87 There is no text on this page. Read
88 fuller than that of the back; with the "… Read
89 being broken up in a most picturesque ma… Read
90 it to Count Cozio di Salabue.* The chara… Read
91 back in a rough triangular form, that pr… Read