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Scan 83
Chats on violins, 1905
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1Gio: Paolo Maggini.
3Gio: Paolo Maggini, da Salo's pupil, was born in Brescia in 1581. His parents, it is thought, were simple country folk, who settled in Brescia before the birth of the little Paolo who arrived to cheer his father's advanced years.
5At what age he was apprenticed to old Gasparo da Salo is not certain, it is only definitely known that when he was twenty-one (in 1602) he was working under that veteran maker's guidance, and probably turning out copies of his master's models. Arrived at the age of thirty-four (nearly the time specified by Byron as the "yellow-leaf") he married Anna Forestio, a lady who among other virtues was blessed with a dowry, and probably such a wifely faith in her husband's talents that Maggini, the married man, set up a business of his own, and started chiselling fiddles in earnest.
7Being a man of genius, he was not long in deserting the paths of da Salo and his forerunners, and turning his attention to those innovations which have remained component parts of every violin. His first
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