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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
6 lines. Read by computer on 30 September 2026. Printed page 88. See the scan on archive.org.
1CHAPTER III.
3GERMAN MAKERS.
5Among all the human arts and industries—and they are many—which came into the purview of that eminent little citizen and melancholy philosopher of Weissnichtwo, while discoursing on the properties of clothes, that of musical-instrument making finds no place; but, for all that, Germany can claim a very early familiarity with instruments of the violin kind, and, recently, some learned and enthusiastic German writers have extended the scope of that claim to a more remote period than is accorded even to Italy. The contest is not unlike that which was waged between the same countries for the honour of having originated the art of engraving from metal plates. No sooner had one nation succeeded in producing an impression a year or two earlier in date than that of any then known to exist, than another unearthed some fragment of antiquity of still remoter origin, until, ultimately, the course of battle was carried on like some of the bids at the Hamilton sale, the intervals of priority becoming smaller and
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