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Scan 133
John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 103. See the scan on archive.org.
1His eyes were full of excitement and wonder and I told him that his violins would one day rank as very beautiful specimens of what he had done to try and advance the Art of violin-making.
3He then asked me to play on a very good violin I had with me at the time, and then he asked me to play on his, so that he could judge the difference of tone, etc.
5It was very sad to see him listening to the strains as I played to him as I knew it was the last music in this world he would ever hear, and Oh! how he listened and looked and wondered.
7I did not want to play but he said he must hear music again before he left on his new journey, and asked me to play one or two things over for him again which I did.
9Poor fellow; he could not play himself and to him to hear someone playing his own violin was no doubt a great pleasure as you can understand.
11It was, with a sad heart, I left the room, and I can now see in my mind very clearly the great modern violin-maker 'John Askew' with that unmistakable feature written in his face—death.
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