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Scan 82
Chats on violins, 1905
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1soldiers sacked the town. This violin had been placed in the Innspruck Museum by Cardinal Aldobrandini at the close of the sixteenth century. A French soldier looted it, and sold it to Rhehazek, for a trifle. This is the same violin that I played on when I first came to the United States, in the Park Theatre. That was on Evacuation Day, 1843. I went to the Astor House, and made a joke—I am quite capable of doing such things. It was the day when John Bull went out and Ole Bull came in. I remember that at the very first concert one of my strings broke, and I had to work out my piece on the three strings, and it was supposed I did it on purpose."
3Da Salo's fiddles are scarce and fetch a good price, but the virtuoso does not seek them; the collector alone buys them (when he can) as interesting specimens of the work of the man, who by some is considered the inventor of the violin, and, even if not the inventor, still was certainly one of the first to manufacture them, and spread those seeds of progress which were gathered by his pupil, Maggini, and ripened by Maggini's successors.
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