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Chats on Violins, 1905
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1own country." If your zeal leads you to rashly ask questions, your reward will be astonishment on the part of the Cremonese, who seem quite unaware that their town was once famous for its violins. To them the name of Stradivarius suggests some doctor, priest, or barrister; but of Antonius Stradivarius, the fiddle-maker, they know little or nothing.
3It is satisfactory to feel that during his lifetime this great artist did not suffer from any neglect from his fellow-citizens, for they loved "The plain white-aproned man who stood at work patient and accurate, full fourscore years." They revered his patience and temperance, and admired the frugality which brought him fame and money.
5Being thorough, economical, highly-gifted and industrious, Strad's success in life was an assured fact. But, how he worked! Even in the last years of his life, when his hand had somewhat lost its cunning, he never ceased; in fact, the hale and hearty old man of ninety was so proud of his capabilities that he often affixed his age to the labels of his later instruments.
7A great French writer has epitomised Strad's life as "work and children," a remark
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