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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1conviction along with it. This is, of course, only a conjecture on my part, prompted by the consideration that, had the great French maker and dealer possessed confidence in the assertions of his informant, he would have mentioned his name to Fetis, and that gentleman would assuredly have published it. The only good reason for withholding this information would be that its publication would at once have placed the world in possession of access to the source from whence Vuillaume derived his fine instruments. I would not, however, have advanced this supposition had it not been for the great weight given by German writers to the statements of Laborde and Fetis, for there is absolutely no other evidence brought forward by any other investigator to support the notion that there ever was a Kerlino at all, in Brescia or elsewhere. Of course, after the publication of the name in 1800, sundry "Kerlinos" appeared on the horizon with diffident claims to notice, but precisely the same phenomenon has been observed with regard to Duiffoprugcar, and all the other great makers. Kolliker — himself a German apparently — was probably the real founder of the Kerlino school, as he was quite clever enough to make such a joke complete. In fact, the letters of Kolliker's own name, reading the syllables backwards, and substituting the liquid \( n \) for the second liquid \( l \), will form the name Kerlino, by throwing out the second \( k \). At any rate, it is somewhat hazardous to rest a decision of such importance in fiddle matters on the unsupported testimony of an anonymous violin dealer. With regard to the violins by Duiffoprugcar, Dr. Schebek must know that some of the most distin-
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