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Scan 91
Chats on Violins, 1905
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1opened to him. This bonne chance came through the retirement from business of his veteran master, Nicolo Amati, then the acknowledged head of violin-making. Cute Stradivarius, seeing his chance, seized, so to speak, the prophet's mantle and wrapped it firmly about him.
3Far too astute to fly in the face of Amati's theories, Stradivarius at this period, contented himself by taking his master's larger pattern as his model. Mr Hart says:
5"The arching is identical, the corners are treated similarly, the sound-hole is quite Amati-like in form, yet easily distinguished by its extreme delicacy. The scroll is a thorough imitation of Amati, and presents a singular contrast to the vigorous individuality which Stradivarius displayed in this portion of his work a few years later."
7He also remarks that:
9"In these earlier specimens there is a singular absence of handsome wood."
11Strad's thrifty habits probably caused him to make a success of his first year's venture in business, for in 1680, when he was thirty-six, he moved his premises into the very
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