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Chats on violins, 1905
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1siduous and gifted student, afterwards carried his master's work to that exquisite perfection which has placed his own instruments in unassailable pre-eminence.
3Nicolo Amati died 12th August 1684, leaving one son, Geronimico, who was also a fiddle-maker, but of far less importance than his father—in fact Nicolo was the last and the greatest of all the Amati family. His calculations as to thickness of wood, elevation of belly and back, far surpassed those of his predecessors, and added to his instruments a slight touch of power which the former members of his family had failed to attain.
5ANTONIUS STRADIVARIUS. Born 1644, died 1737. Son of Signor Alessandro Stradivarius and Signora Anna Moroni.
7There is no name in the history of violin-making about which there clings so much interest as that of Antonius Stradivarius. Yet, should you visit Cremona to-day, ardently wishing to discover something more of him, you will find that this prophet of glue-pots and wizard of curves has inherited a prophet's fate, "having no honour in his
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