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Scan 18
Old violins, 1910
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 14. See the scan on archive.org.
1nay, even when cut up and dismembered, its several parts, scattered through a dozen workshops and three hundred years, live on with a kind of metempsychosis in new forms, and still cling strangely to their individuality, so that men taking up a patchwork violin say, 'It is fine—the front is poor, the head is tame, but see here is a Stradivarius back!'
3"Thus human in its power and pathos, superhuman in its immortal fabric, the violin reigns supreme, the king and queen of all instruments—and, in the hands of a Paganini, a Joachim, an Ernst, or a Sarasate, the joy and wonder of the civilised world."
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