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Scan 129
Chats on violins, 1905
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1master's style. The varnish is thick and rich, and the wood used generally handsome.
3GUARNERIUS, Joseph del Gesù, 1683-1745. This great fiddle-maker is the only one who may be said to have rivalled Stradivarius. According to Monsieur Vuillaume, Joseph del Gesù's father was Giovanni Battesta (brother of Andrea) and his mother was Angela Maria Locatelli. He was born in Cremona, 8th June 1683, and baptized on the 11th in the Chapel of Ease of the Cathedral in the parish of St Donato.
5Unlike the rest of the family, Guarnerius' father seems to have had nothing to do with fiddle-making, or known anything about it, and his son is supposed to have been placed in his cousin Joseph's (son of Andrea) workshop to learn the fiddle-making art.
7The masterly genius of the mighty Joseph del Gesù prevented him from ever being a copyist, if his instruments can be said to bear the least resemblance to any maker, old Gasparo da Salo, the Brescian, may be quoted as the type.
9No other fiddle-maker has made such grandiose instruments as del Gesù. His eye for boldness of effect, and his supreme and
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