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Joseph Guarnerius, his work and his master [Andreas Gisalberti], 1906
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1striking similarity of his workmanship in many details with that of his great pupil, Joseph Guarnerius, has been too much of a temptation where a lucrative return seemed within reach; the opportunity once caught sight of has been eagerly seized, and the deception has in many instances yet to be found out.
3Another peculiarity in connection with the work and manner of its execution by Andreas Gisalberti may be justly noticed, and that is that notwithstanding the increase in the number of followers of Antonio Stradivari's style, in different parts of Italy, his manner seems to have remained undisturbed as that of a man who really believed in himself. Rough looking and uncouth as some of his instruments may be called by captious critics, there is the strong intellectual individuality about them for which no amount of high finish could compensate, and when in good preservation and fairly well regulated, the tone is such as to keep them in the front rank when once they are recognised.
5As is the case with most other makers (perhaps there is no exception) the violins of Andreas Gisalberti differ in the degree of power accompanying the fine quality; an extraordinary amount of both seems to be the essential in the minds of too many violin players of the present day. Something that every one will acknowledge to be exactly as fine as anything yet made, or that has ever been heard, combined with an overbearing vibratory power, beside which nothing in the fiddle line can for a moment live!—that is the combination most eagerly sought for by so many fiddle and tone fanciers.
7When Gisalberti was at Rimini, he added to his previous models two fresh distinct types of violin, the first being a continuation, or possibly made from the same blocks and patterns as the Parma instruments, the other having a stiffer or straighter waist.
9They have the same exterior workmanship, but the interior linings and blocks of the stiff-waisted type are less massive, although of the same rough or hasty appearance. This difference would not be easily
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