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Old Violins And Their Makers
James M. Fleming. 1883.
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| 2 | Vol. …… of …………….. vols. |… | Read | |
| 3 | The date last stamped hereunder is the l… | Read | |
| 11 | PREFACE. | Read | |
| 12 | writer may have found it to be his privi… | Read | |
| 13 | CONTENTS. | Read | |
| 14 | Contents. | Read | |
| 15 | OLD VIOLINS | Read | |
| 16 | 2 | supports them, and that no Greek monumen… | Read |
| 17 | 3 | subject is a man seated, reading a volum… | Read |
| 18 | 4 | of a learned Greek musician, astronomer,… | Read |
| 19 | 5 | de la civilisation Chrétienne avec les t… | Read |
| 20 | 6 | of these conjectures are not without wei… | Read |
| 21 | 7 | doubtless suggested by the circumstance… | Read |
| 22 | 8 | monarch—such as Da Vinci, Rosso, Primati… | Read |
| 23 | 9 | curious, as there exists a fine (suppose… | Read |
| 24 | 10 | scoundrel. That he was completely devoid… | Read |
| 25 | 11 | exist, and there may possibly be violas,… | Read |
| 26 | 12 | The best-known examples of this master,… | Read |
| 27 | 13 | shown a "Violin by Gaspard Duiffoprugcar… | Read |
| 28 | 14 | violas, &c., have almost all been altere… | Read |
| 29 | 15 | umphant though troubled career, this hot… | Read |
| 30 | 16 | It would have been gratifying to me had… | Read |
| 31 | 17 | by him when he was about nineteen years… | Read |
| 32 | 18 | relating to the pre-violin era, and it w… | Read |
| 33 | 19 | swords, daggers, and firearms, possessin… | Read |
| 34 | 20 | almost impossible to conceive that any d… | Read |
| 35 | 21 | was an amazingly fine fiddle, in wonderf… | Read |
| 36 | 22 | and became the property of Herr Rehatsch… | Read |
| 37 | 23 | Gasparo, and in this country there are o… | Read |
| 38 | 24 | Giovani Paolo Maggini, the most distingu… | Read |
| 39 | 25 | duced. The tone of his violins is grand… | Read |
| 40 | 26 | CHAPTER II. | Read |
| 41 | 27 | continual change of masters to whom it w… | Read |
| 42 | 28 | this latter act of heroism, or the forme… | Read |
| 43 | 29 | Salabue, and was afterwards at Milan, th… | Read |
| 44 | 30 | violins found their way into this countr… | Read |
| 45 | 31 | There is some confusion as to the subseq… | Read |
| 46 | 32 | of 1697, it follows that the period of a… | Read |
| 47 | 33 | cated by some of the less scrupulous. Th… | Read |
| 48 | 34 | tickets dating after 1638 for Jerome (Hi… | Read |
| 49 | 35 | grain. They are almost always small, the… | Read |
| 50 | 36 | date 1668, that is, when Nicolas was sev… | Read |
| 51 | 37 | into the market it is very soon known in… | Read |
| 52 | 38 | researches in the neighbourhood have bro… | Read |
| 53 | 39 | caused almost equally everywhere; while… | Read |
| 54 | 40 | became a matter of the first importance,… | Read |
| 55 | 41 | earlier writers, and altogether there is… | Read |
| 56 | 42 | fine copies of his master. There was a F… | Read |
| 57 | 43 | of these Albanis are said to be servile… | Read |
| 58 | 44 | Paolo Grancino, a pupil of Nicolas Amati… | Read |
| 59 | 45 | holes are somewhat like those of Nicolas… | Read |
| 60 | 46 | Francesco Rugeri is supposed to have bee… | Read |
| 61 | 47 | its perfection, he did not greatly disti… | Read |
| 62 | 48 | tickets run "Andreas Guarnerius Cremonæ… | Read |
| 63 | 49 | flat, having the borders strongly projec… | Read |
| 64 | 50 | uncertainty which crept into the early r… | Read |
| 65 | 51 | nality, are, more or less, reproductions… | Read |
| 66 | 52 | but that must be a typographical error—r… | Read |
| 67 | 53 | ment might be found in the municipal or… | Read |
| 68 | 54 | stain upon this artist's name, I shall b… | Read |
| 69 | 55 | certainly not in that. Although it has b… | Read |
| 70 | 56 | When the latter, on examining it, told P… | Read |
| 71 | 57 | moment somewhat thoughtful. He then trie… | Read |
| 72 | 58 | to die away, so to speak, in the effort… | Read |
| 73 | 59 | and his tickets are found as represented… | Read |
| 74 | 60 | far back as 1213, some say 1127, in hono… | Read |
| 75 | 61 | that it is by no means a fanciful conjec… | Read |
| 76 | 62 | the town, letting Eugene enter with a fe… | Read |
| 77 | 63 | shortest and most harmless military tria… | Read |
| 78 | 64 | to speak of him, describing him as tall… | Read |
| 79 | 65 | died in Turin in 1763, eighteen years be… | Read |
| 80 | 66 | and Giuseppe, entered the Church. Paolo… | Read |
| 81 | 67 | little or no exaggeration in it even now… | Read |
| 82 | 68 | total number of genuine Stradivari violi… | Read |
| 83 | 69 | terms with those concerned, and departed… | Read |
| 84 | 70 | distinguished by a gradual, graceful, an… | Read |
| 85 | 71 | dated 1702, was, a good many years ago,… | Read |
| 86 | 72 | have been appropriated in a moment of sh… | Read |
| 87 | 73 | connoisseur and fiddle fanatic, who kept… | Read |
| 88 | 74 | This last trait is curiously corroborate… | Read |
| 89 | 75 | preservation is concerned, France, with… | Read |
| 90 | 76 | decadence in the quality of his work whi… | Read |
| 91 | 77 | dence some of the interest which at pres… | Read |
| 92 | 78 | name, and sealed them with his seal;" an… | Read |
| 93 | 79 | a thick forest, near a place called Mari… | Read |
| 94 | 80 | and the date 1732, and is described as o… | Read |
| 95 | 81 | made only five years before his death. T… | Read |
| 96 | 82 | Gagliano, a son of this Nicolas, lived a… | Read |
| 97 | 83 | He was a pupil of Stradivari. He is also… | Read |
| 98 | 84 | although, in the latest edition of Otto'… | Read |
| 99 | 85 | The Cremonese School. | Read |
| 100 | 86 | M. A. Bergonzi, son of above, worked in… | Read |
| 101 | 87 | They both claim to have been pupils of S… | Read |
| 102 | 88 | CHAPTER III. | Read |
| 103 | 89 | smaller, and eventually a single year po… | Read |
| 104 | 90 | invited to be present at this ceremony,… | Read |
| 105 | 91 | tained. This Lucas Maler, according to t… | Read |
| 106 | 92 | formed a single profession, and even yet… | Read |
| 107 | 93 | reasonable to suppose that others exist… | Read |
| 108 | 94 | Twenty-five years passed away, and then… | Read |
| 109 | 95 | conviction along with it. This is, of co… | Read |
| 110 | 96 | guished experts do not believe for a mom… | Read |
| 111 | 97 | theorising into the discussion, and in t… | Read |
| 112 | 98 | ninety-five plates of the engraving were… | Read |
| 113 | 99 | German Makers. | Read |
| 114 | 100 | Battle of Nude Figures about 1480—a date… | Read |
| 115 | 101 | those embryo violins were not the incept… | Read |
| 116 | 102 | horrible abode." It is constantly envelo… | Read |
| 117 | 103 | apt pupil if it be true that he sold vio… | Read |
| 118 | 104 | Count Albert Fugger prosecuted him for c… | Read |
| 119 | 105 | carry desolation into three otherwise ha… | Read |
| 120 | 106 | maple, and the instruments are covered w… | Read |
| 121 | 107 | to account for the excessive scarcity of… | Read |
| 122 | 108 | above him; grown a young man, he attract… | Read |
| 123 | 109 | of these qualities having been given whe… | Read |
| 124 | 110 | totally distinct from those of the Lower… | Read |
| 125 | 111 | performer, Franz Veracini, is, on the au… | Read |
| 126 | 112 | worked for about twenty years in Mittenw… | Read |
| 127 | 113 | Customs-house officer with whom he dwelt… | Read |
| 128 | 114 | they were incapable of descending to the… | Read |
| 129 | 115 | who used amber varnish. The sides of the… | Read |
| 130 | 116 | worked at Absom, but nothing more is kno… | Read |
| 131 | 117 | The coarse deal which he used for the be… | Read |
| 132 | 118 | model, and his son, George Schonger, at… | Read |
| 133 | 119 | some violins of the same type, but he wa… | Read |
| 134 | 120 | in making violins; but, among others, he… | Read |
| 135 | 121 | in the determination of the dimensions a… | Read |
| 136 | 122 | two jurors were each of the highest rank… | Read |
| 137 | 123 | may think £1000 a somewhat absurd sum as… | Read |
| 138 | 124 | That the violin is supreme as an orchest… | Read |
| 139 | 125 | well and in a correct manner, so that he… | Read |
| 140 | 126 | the secret of which has long been lost t… | Read |
| 141 | 127 | of the great Cremonese school. There are… | Read |
| 142 | 128 | no information that I know of is procura… | Read |
| 143 | 129 | Friederich Scheinlein, born in 1710, in… | Read |
| 144 | 130 | those of Mirecourt; and it is claimed fo… | Read |
| 145 | 131 | helped to swell the number of Cremonese… | Read |
| 146 | 132 | considerable praise and a medal. They we… | Read |
| 147 | 133 | Lemböck, of Vienna, showed two very resp… | Read |
| 148 | 134 | of those marvellous imitations of Stradi… | Read |
| 149 | 135 | CHAPTER IV. | Read |
| 150 | 136 | In a description of the fêtes held by th… | Read |
| 151 | 137 | summarily suppressed by Louis XVI., on t… | Read |
| 152 | 138 | examples of the violin type. Those prece… | Read |
| 153 | 139 | made after this time to "durable varnish… | Read |
| 154 | 140 | the French capital about 1655, and to ha… | Read |
| 155 | 141 | French Makers. | Read |
| 156 | 142 | the peculiar name of Dieulafait, of whom… | Read |
| 157 | 143 | appearance would lead one to anticipate… | Read |
| 158 | 144 | Luneville, and in 1758 went to Stuttgart… | Read |
| 159 | 145 | sider this a kind of embellishment. He m… | Read |
| 160 | 146 | musician in Leipsic, after whose death i… | Read |
| 161 | 147 | jocularly said of him that he only produ… | Read |
| 162 | 148 | was contemporary with Pierray and Boquay… | Read |
| 163 | 149 | these, but it is not known if he was rel… | Read |
| 164 | 150 | established himself in London at the tim… | Read |
| 165 | 151 | sound holes are very wide in the middle.… | Read |
| 166 | 152 | where he had retired to a small property… | Read |
| 167 | 153 | his condemnation he said, alluding to hi… | Read |
| 168 | 154 | post, the adjustment of the pegs, and th… | Read |
| 169 | 155 | wood. They are placed in the front rank… | Read |
| 170 | 156 | employed by Gand, whose principal man he… | Read |
| 171 | 157 | French Makers. | Read |
| 172 | 158 | merits, and of this commission the celeb… | Read |
| 173 | 159 | where he was employed by Vuillaume for s… | Read |
| 174 | 160 | Charles Simonin, a pupil of Vuillaume, w… | Read |
| 175 | 161 | once performed by a celebrated artist. T… | Read |
| 176 | 162 | to doubt—should, perhaps, hardly be inst… | Read |
| 177 | 163 | also shows that he never, in all probabi… | Read |
| 178 | 164 | François Chanot, before mentioned, engag… | Read |
| 179 | 165 | to require some explanation. But, even i… | Read |
| 180 | 166 | was the best. He was a clever merchant w… | Read |
| 181 | 167 | death. Vuillaume also invented the steel… | Read |
| 182 | 168 | In his private character, J. B. Vuillaum… | Read |
| 183 | 169 | monogram and a cross, and sometimes this… | Read |
| 184 | 170 | CHAPTER V. | Read |
| 185 | 171 | masters and associates of the said guild… | Read |
| 186 | 172 | acknowledged good, the master expert at… | Read |
| 187 | 173 | immediately after their institution the… | Read |
| 188 | 174 | whom there exists a double bass in the c… | Read |
| 189 | 175 | existence are held in considerable estee… | Read |
| 190 | 176 | ments are modelled on the Amati pattern,… | Read |
| 191 | 177 | about 1706. In Norway the peasantry are… | Read |
| 192 | 178 | CHAPTER VI. | Read |
| 193 | 179 | of reason as any other people could disp… | Read |
| 194 | 180 | least, the naming of the latter instrume… | Read |
| 195 | 181 | various peoples, but there is no trace o… | Read |
| 196 | 182 | figure of the performer, not much under… | Read |
| 197 | 183 | figure of a man playing with a bow upon… | Read |
| 198 | 184 | Society. This crouth had four strings fo… | Read |
| 199 | 185 | mechanical for natural means, and it app… | Read |
| 200 | 186 | we in France so particularly prize, but… | Read |
| 201 | 187 | before referred to, is supposed to have… | Read |
| 202 | 188 | extent, in this country, if not also in… | Read |
| 203 | 189 | ment, apparently quite oblivious of the… | Read |
| 204 | 190 | faculties and affections (for the time)"… | Read |
| 205 | 191 | performer "may have, as many of them hav… | Read |
| 206 | 192 | of them was contemporary with himself an… | Read |
| 207 | 193 | almost certain that, in these instances,… | Read |
| 208 | 194 | Ferabosco, an eminent English violist an… | Read |
| 209 | 195 | reference to a "croudero," evidently an… | Read |
| 210 | 196 | The Names of the Gents of his Majesties… | Read |
| 211 | 197 | to be in Europe, Paul Wheeler, Mr. Mell,… | Read |
| 212 | 198 | remonstrances, for we find Pepys describ… | Read |
| 213 | 199 | to have been dictated by mere fashion. A… | Read |
| 214 | 200 | which had, in some cases, been in use an… | Read |
| 215 | 201 | of James V., and governed the kingdom mo… | Read |
| 216 | 202 | Thy clowtit cloik, thy skrip, and thy cl… | Read |
| 217 | 203 | curb, by severe penalties, the conduct o… | Read |
| 218 | 204 | Aldred nothing appears to be known. A co… | Read |
| 219 | 205 | equal to that on some Italian instrument… | Read |
| 220 | 206 | employed in constructing viols, such as… | Read |
| 221 | 207 | and Dutch doitkins, in place of farthing… | Read |
| 222 | 208 | the Royal Chapel were sent from Madrid t… | Read |
| 223 | 209 | said, in 1820, from which it would seem… | Read |
| 224 | 210 | that he made inferior instruments for th… | Read |
| 225 | 211 | Walmsley was another maker famed in his… | Read |
| 226 | 212 | it may be called good; and another maker… | Read |
| 227 | 213 | or, rather, the history of the name, bac… | Read |
| 228 | 214 | its fabricator died at Brampton in 1801.… | Read |
| 229 | 215 | the name. In 1781 he was in St. Martin's… | Read |
| 230 | 216 | George III. An imperfect list of the num… | Read |
| 231 | 217 | William, though highly finished, is not… | Read |
| 248 | 234 | much coveted now, and command very high… | Read |
| 252 | 238 | died, on the 13th January, 1874. He had… | Read |
| 253 | 239 | them with his name, "Henry, Paris," in t… | Read |
| 254 | 240 | that he knows bows by this maker which w… | Read |
| 255 | 241 | unvarying regularity in the same degree… | Read |
| 256 | 242 | line above, and, taking this as a second… | Read |
| 257 | 243 | performers who, among others, played wit… | Read |
| 258 | 244 | flat and ribbon-like surface throughout… | Read |
| 259 | 245 | might adhere, by plunging it into pure w… | Read |
| 260 | 246 | curious details of a portion of the hist… | Read |
| 262 | 248 | and the name is stamped on the stick. Th… | Read |
| 263 | 249 | (Richmond), Mr. Richard Platt. This gent… | Read |
| 265 | 251 | CHAPTER VIII. | Read |
| 266 | 252 | another, it excites in it always an osci… | Read |
| 267 | 253 | another figure is obtained, and still ot… | Read |
| 268 | 254 | duced a similar effect. The merest tyro… | Read |
| 269 | 255 | was contrary to what the majority of mus… | Read |
| 270 | 256 | of the vibrating portion of the violin i… | Read |
| 271 | 257 | this instrument has never justified the… | Read |
| 272 | 258 | course, the gradations from centre to ci… | Read |
| 273 | 259 | that he adopted a process of a similar n… | Read |
| 274 | 260 | bécarre), and in 1856 or thereabout, the… | Read |
| 275 | 261 | inside of a violin, and a heavy weight b… | Read |
| 276 | 262 | wood when exposed to the air, almost the… | Read |
| 277 | 263 | the peculiar soil in which they grow. Th… | Read |
| 278 | 264 | CHAPTER IX. | Read |
| 279 | 265 | natural product found in many places in… | Read |
| 280 | 266 | exercise of the very quality which they… | Read |
| 281 | 267 | the odour of animi (hard copal) or the v… | Read |
| 282 | 268 | lac, sandarach, mastic, soft copal, call… | Read |
| 283 | 269 | tested in the manner cited above, and wi… | Read |
| 284 | 270 | that is, those which have lost their res… | Read |
| 285 | 271 | be otherwise explained. Various experime… | Read |
| 286 | 272 | orange. A more or less concentrated solu… | Read |
| 287 | 273 | paper might be placed under it, and, if… | Read |
| 288 | 274 | alcohol to be tested is placed. If the t… | Read |
| 289 | 275 | Violin Varnish. | Read |
| 290 | 276 | dusting over erasures in manuscripts, wh… | Read |
| 291 | 277 | Violin Varnish. | Read |
| 292 | 278 | afterwards, in less than an hour, they a… | Read |
| 293 | 279 | the colour without becoming turbid. This… | Read |
| 294 | 280 | have been adulterated with turps is to p… | Read |
| 295 | 281 | soon the alcohol forsakes the essence, a… | Read |
| 296 | 282 | the alcohol eliminated, as before descri… | Read |
| 297 | 283 | quickly through the linen as much as you… | Read |
| 298 | 284 | were to lose any of its strength it woul… | Read |
| 299 | 285 | following manner, a "Liebig's Condenser.… | Read |
| 300 | 286 | flexible in the heat, then gently bendin… | Read |
| 301 | 287 | as shown in the cut, by means of a paper… | Read |
| 302 | 288 | you can make by placing the flask in a c… | Read |
| 303 | 289 | nished. In order not to carbonise the co… | Read |
| 304 | 290 | range from a yellow orange to a brown ma… | Read |
| 305 | 291 | that vehicle, to operate as indicated fo… | Read |
| 306 | 292 | tion of what we now call Brazil wood, th… | Read |
| 307 | 293 | made in other directions, to which, as t… | Read |
| 308 | 294 | been exposed to the light, are factors w… | Read |
| 309 | 295 | soft; the first three of the latter clas… | Read |
| 310 | 296 | carefully sheltered, in boxes or other p… | Read |
| 311 | 297 | hours to dissolve in summer, and in wint… | Read |
| 312 | 298 | above proportions are for essence colour… | Read |
| 313 | 299 | in such circumstances, he might, very na… | Read |
| 314 | 300 | the risk of cracking. You would, at leas… | Read |
| 315 | 301 | avoiding blotches. Behind a shut window… | Read |
| 316 | 302 | and when alcoholic varnishes are made, i… | Read |
| 317 | 303 | sufficiently free from dust and débris a… | Read |
| 318 | 304 | of the red colours, as otherwise, the es… | Read |
| 319 | 305 | experiments is on record, and the eviden… | Read |
| 320 | 306 | CHAPTER X. | Read |
| 321 | 307 | changing, with no other object than that… | Read |
| 322 | 308 | such violins are so rare, a sufficiently… | Read |
| 323 | 309 | nor yet for connoisseurs. A great public… | Read |
| 324 | 310 | the curators of that museum recognised i… | Read |
| 325 | 311 | CHAPTER XI. | Read |
| 326 | 312 | twenty years before that date. Other wri… | Read |
| 327 | 313 | fifteen years settled at the court of Fr… | Read |
| 328 | 314 | CHAPTER XII. | Read |
| 329 | 315 | becomes further modified to "early in th… | Read |
| 330 | 316 | Anselmo, P., Venice, Cremona—1701. | Read |
| 331 | 317 | List of Foreign and Native Makers. | Read |
| 332 | 318 | Droulot, Paris—1788. | Read |
| 333 | 319 | List of Foreign and Native Makers. | Read |
| 334 | 320 | Hensch, G., Paris—1761. | Read |
| 335 | 321 | List of Foreign and Native Makers. | Read |
| 336 | 322 | Montron, Paris—1788. | Read |
| 337 | 323 | List of Foreign and Native Makers. | Read |
| 338 | 324 | Simonin, C., Geneva and Toulouse—1841. | Read |
| 339 | 325 | Violin Bow Makers. | Read |
| 340 | 326 | Lafleur, J. R., Paris—1812-74. | Read |
| 341 | 327 | INDEX. | Read |
| 342 | 328 | Cardinal of Ferrara, 10 | Read |
| 343 | 329 | Index. | Read |
| 344 | 330 | R. | Read |
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