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De fidiculis bibliographia: being an attempt towards a bibliography of the violin and all other instruments played with a bow in ancient and modern times, 1890
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1of the enthusiastic and inflated vocative Italian "Eulogy." After a clarion introduction, the first part treats of the origins of music, mythological and historic, invoking all the names of classical antiquity which have been connected with the science and art under discussion. Part II. deals with Nardini from his birth in 1722, tracing his travels and triumphs with ecstasy, until his death in 1793. "Gli uomini come Nardini," exclaims his eulogist, "che tanto raramente dona all' umanità la natura, dovrebbero, se fosse possibile, vivere sempre esclusi della fatale necessità della morte"! Had Signor Leoni's pious wish been granted his pamphlet might have been longer, but without doubt his stock of adjectives could not have held out beyond another page or two.
3124a. REBS, Alexander.
4 Anleitung | zum | Lackiren von Streich instrumenten, | sowie zur | Herstellung der dabei zu verwendenden | Beizen, Firnisse und Lacke. | Von | Alexander Rebs.
5 Leipzig, n.d. [1889]. P. de Wit. 8vo, pp. iv. and 44.
7This is a work not only interesting to the student, but practically valuable for the violin-maker. After a preface and first part dealing with the simple (einfache) varnish and the imitation of the old varnishes, we reach Part II., which is devoted to the manufacture of the sizes (grundbeizen) and varnishes (grundirfurnisse). This part gives the fullest recipes for (a) all kinds of sizing and stains; (b) first varnishes; (c) coloured washes; (d) coloured varnishes; (e) blending varnishes; (f) final-coat varnishes, and some notes on the preparation of rosin for the violin-bow. Without being as voluminous or scientific as Mailand's work (No. 122), this little book is equally suggestive and probably more practically useful.
9139c. ANONYMOUS.
10 The Salabue Stradivari. | A History and
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