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Scan 81
Chats on violins, 1905
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 63. See the scan on archive.org.
1to purity and sweetness in Cremona. What da Salo and Maggini had gained in power, the Amatis gained in sweetness, and in so doing forged the great link between the old Brescian makers and Stradivarius, who so grandly combined the three qualities—sweetness, purity, and power.
3Rome was not built in a day, nor was this perfection hastily accomplished, for that which da Salo, Maggini and the Amatis commenced was left for another generation to perfect after a lapse of nearly a hundred years.
5Of old Andrea Amati, the founder of the Cremona violin family, very little is definitely known. He was born about 1520, is quoted as one of a noble family who intermarried with people of rank, and seems to have been originally a maker of rebeccs, Viola da Gamba, and Viola da Braccio. Where he acquired his knowledge of Violin-making is undiscovered, and it is only conjectured from the resemblance of his ff's. to these of Gasparo da Salo, that he may have visited Brescia and, seeing da Salo's work, became fired with the ambition to contrive something of the same kind.
7Few of Andrea Amati's Violins are now
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