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Scan 80
Chats on violins, 1905
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1ravaged Brescia in 1623, and, being carried to one of the plague-houses, was hastily buried. He was only fifty-one, and the result of his life's work counted but fifty fiddles and under two dozen tenors and violoncellos. Truly a small number, but as Maggini is considered to have had independent means, he was thus able to do his work more for art's sake, and leave those "footprints on the sands of time" which have helped his successors and even inspired Stradivarius to make his "Long pattern Strads." Some of Maggini's finest fiddles have been in the hands of many a great virtuoso; Ole Bull, Leonard, Vieux-temps, all possessed Maggini's, and that elegant Belgian artist, de Beriot, had two fine specimens, one of which he picked up in an old curiosity shop in Paris, for fifteen francs. This instrument now belongs to the Prince de Chimey, and is considered of high value.
3While da Salo and Maggini in Brescia were gradually solving the problem of acquiring greater power of tone, Andrea Amati and his two sons, Antonio and Hieronymus, were turning their attention
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