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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1from 1690 to 1730, and others that his span of life was 1680 to 1710; so he must have died when he was thirty or forty years of age. He also was a good violin maker, but very little is known about him, though he is supposed to have taught his art to the younger Joseph.
3The violins of this other Joseph Guarnerius (usually denominated as the "son of Andreas Guarnerius") now fetch in the market as much as £150 or more, according to their quality and state of preservation. But they are very seldom met with, and not at all known even by men who have the reputation of being experts. They are much more scarce than the violins of Stradivarius and Amati; and these are quite rare enough! But when the rage broke out among artistes and amateurs for having a "Guarnerius violin" like that of Paganini, when all the instruments of Joseph Guarnerius the younger had been bought up long ago, some dealers in Paris made a little play with the other Joseph—Giuseppe, figlio d'Andrea (Joseph, son of Andreas), as he was, and is still, called—and a few of these violins found their way into the hands of wealthy amateurs in this country about 1840.
5In the little workshop of Nicolo Amati in Cremona—the most famous violin maker of his day—besides the workman Antonio Stradivari, the best, and afterwards the most celebrated violin maker that ever lived (though let us not hide the fact that
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