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Scan 135
Chats on violins, 1905
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 113. See the scan on archive.org.
1Other Italian Makers
3curves of the instrument bears a striking testimony to the force with which he sawed the gut in his bravura passages on the first and fourth strings. Indeed, one has only to look at the fantastic patches of exposed wood here and there upon the fiddle to conjure up the ghostly fingers that wore them bare, and the grotesque figure which it completed.
5"Attached to the head of the instrument by red, white, and green ribbons, and the seal of municipality, is a card bearing the seal of Baron Achille Paganini, and the words 'Violino di Nicolo Paganini,' in his handwriting. A bow, the one he always used, stands with the violin beneath the crystal dome. The length of the whole fiddle is 60 cm., that of the body 35 1/2 cm., from neck to rest.
7"The following document is attached to the holder of the instrument: 'Genova: il quattro Luglio Mille otte cento cinquant uno. Cartolina anessa al violino del fu' Barone Nicola (sic) Paganini, firmata da tutte le parti intervenute nell' atto della consigna del violino medesimo, fatto in questro gioino à rogito del Notaro Giacome
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