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Scan 76
Chats on violins, 1905
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1CHAT III.
3ITALIAN MAKERS—VIOLINS FROM GASPARO DA SALO TO ANTONIUS STRADIVARIUS.
5IN 1602 there lived and worked in the little town of Brescia in Lombardy, two men whose names were destined to become as familiar to lovers of the violin as Chaucer and Gower are to lovers of poetry: I mean Gasparo da Salo and his young pupil Gio Paolo Maggini.
7Quite unconscious of the "monumental pomp of age" which their handicraft was destined to support, these two men in their workshop under the blue Italian sky, dexterously carved, glued, and stained the violins which after three hundred years still sing their master's names. Simply and earnestly they did their work, and knowingly or unknowingly, put a something into each individual curve, bend, or round, which would ever recall the "touch of the vanished hand."
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