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Scan 92
Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1name, and sealed them with his seal;" and I do not think it would be exceeding the mark to say that the number of good instruments bearing his tickets at the present day is greater by many times than father and sons united ever made.
3Figs. 6 and 7 show facsimiles of one manuscript and one printed ticket. The dimensions and inclination of
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9Figs. 6 and 7. Tickets of Antonio Stradivari.
11this maker's sound holes are illustrated in the Frontispiece (Antonio Stradivari).
13Among the Italian pupils and imitators of Antonio Stradivari, there was one, Allessandro Gagliano, to whose name a somewhat romantic story has been attached. It is said that he was the son of a marquis of the same name, and that he was obliged to leave Naples in order to withdraw himself from the reach of the police, by whom he was "wanted" for some murderous attack upon another man, who was about to marry a lady to whom he was engaged. He concealed himself in
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