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Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737), 1909
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1tempting to attain the characteristic brightness of tone combined with the solemn depth of power of the Magginis. Until 1698, with but rare exceptions, he continued to make violins of the long pattern only. In that year we see a change, for, curiously enough, he returns, with a few modifications, to the pre-1690 type; 1699 gives us the orthodox long pattern again; but in 1700, as far as our observations go, he has dismissed it for good. We do not, of course, positively affirm that no long-pattern instruments were made in 1698, but only record that hitherto we have not
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5Fig. 17.—Stradivari's Monogram, carved on the Button of the Back of an Example Dated 1689.
7met with any. The existence of fresh designs in 1698 undoubtedly shows that Stradivari was restless; and this, coupled with the fact of our having possessed another violin dated 1699, which, while preserving the "long Strad" width, is of the ordinary fourteen-inch length, tends to foreshadow Stradivari's return to the pre-1690 proportions.
9The varnish used by Stradivari after 1690 is, with notably few exceptions, of a deeper and richer colour than that of the previous years. We have hitherto been
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