Scan 67
Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737), 1909
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1placed in a direction slanting from right to left. The "Hellier" and the instrument known as the Spanish Stradivari, dated 1679 and 1687 respectively, have backs of broad curl in one piece; the latter is exceptionally handsome, and both are of wood of foreign, i.e. non-Italian, growth.
3In the work published by us, "Giovanni Paolo Maggini: his Life and Work," we record our belief that Stradivari was influenced in the conception of the long-pattern instrument by Maggini's violins; and the more carefully and critically we examine the violins of the 1690 decade, the more evidence do we find in support of our views. Among the various relics from Stradivari's workshop purchased by Count Cozio from Stradivari's son Paolo, and of which we treat fully in Chapter VIII., there are no fewer than nineteen forms or moulds used by the maker for the construction of the sides. Several of them were made for the
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