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Chats on violins, 1905
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1quently lingered on its ebony fingerboard. Paganini died at the Count de Cesole's house at Nice, where the Count surrounded him with every attention that affection could suggest.
3Some years after Paganini's death, his friend Berlioz was also at Nice seeking health, and one night while he lay dreaming over his dead friend, the sounds of a violin reached his ear. The music was Paganini's variations on "The Carnival." Berlioz was greatly startled, and, rushing to the window, discovered the player to be Count Cesole. He was serenading his living friend with the music of their dead friend, on the glorious "Cesole Stradivarius."
5In 1717, came the "Sasseron," and 1718 the "Maurin." Then, in 1722, the exquisitely ornamented violin called the "Rode," the ribs of which are covered with a conventional design in black. The purfling is inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl. This fiddle, which was the last of his ornamented ones, has risen gradually in price from £160, for which sum it was purchased from Rode by the Duc d'Olbreuse, to £1,200, which price was paid for it by Hills in 1890.
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