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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1from which it is almost impossible to distinguish them, and the name "Stradivarius" is a talisman in the market.
3Next came Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, who occasionally made violins equal in sweetness and power to those of Stradivari; and the same may be said, with the greatest probability, as regards the work of Carlo Bergonzi (another workman in the shop of Stradivari), Lupot (formerly of Stuttgart, then of Lyons), Médard, and a few others, such as Sebastian Kloz, of Mittenwald in the Tyrol, one of whose violins was sold in London for £300 about forty years ago.
5Stradivarius, as the English connoisseurs generally call him, worked till he was over ninety years of age, and turned out a very large number of violins and violoncellos. Probably at the lowest estimate, some seven thousand instruments—violins, tenors, and 'cellos—must have left the celebrated Cremona workshop during the long life of that extraordinary man. The latest example of his market value is evinced in the sale of the Stradivarius violin that used to belong to the late M. Alard (head of the French Conservatoire violin classes, and son-in-law of Vuillaume the violin-maker). It was bought for £2000, a year or two ago, by Mr. Crawfurd, a Yorkshire gentleman. His usual price for a violin was about £4 English money, unless specially ornamented or made to
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