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Cremona violins. Four letters descriptive of those exhibited in 1873 at the South Kensington museum. Also giving the data for producing the true varnishes used by the great Cremona makers
Reade, Charles, 1814-1884. New York: A. Broude, 1900.
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| 11 | Cremona Fiddles. | Read | |
| 12 | Well, it would collapse with a crash, lo… | Read | |
| 13 | heart of man. It can be prostituted to t… | Read | |
| 14 | about equal in number, I am driven to th… | Read | |
| 15 | The first known maker of the true tenor,… | Read | |
| 16 | century younger than the belly. But this… | Read | |
| 17 | SECOND LETTER. | Read | |
| 18 | He learned from the Brescian school the… | Read | |
| 19 | and the upper and lower bought of a dwar… | Read | |
| 20 | Leaving the makers of the Guarnerius fam… | Read | |
| 21 | of this his greatest epoch: the purfling… | Read | |
| 22 | proved rather prettily out of the mouth… | Read | |
| 23 | Well, one day Georges Chanot, Senior, wh… | Read | |
| 27 | Andreas Guarnerius was the closest of al… | Read | |
| 28 | Joseph, son of Andrew, who was then an o… | Read | |
| 29 | ends in a broad zigzag ribbon of varnish… | Read | |
| 30 | Fine size, reasonable outline, flat and… | Read | |
| 31 | 25 | freer from this defect than his imitator… | Read |
| 32 | 26 | a thrill through the true connoisseur. T… | Read |
| 33 | 27 | I come now to the last of the Goths, thu… | Read |
| 34 | 28 | FOURTH LETTER. | Read |
| 35 | 29 | the violins of Brescia and of Stradiuari… | Read |
| 36 | they flattered the eye with something li… | Read | |
| 37 | 4. The far more prevalent notion was tha… | Read | |
| 40 | a chip in it, and the glossy top varnish… | Read | |
| 41 | conceived notion that the varnish must b… | Read | |
| 42 | of the deal better. But its principal me… | Read | |
| 43 | can, and, in a word, live moderately, an… | Read |