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Scan 119
Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1dummy contrivance. He made a self-hairing bow, which is still sold by Mr. Withers; but most violinists prefer to pay a small sum and get their bows haired, just as most men prefer to get themselves shaved—it is less trouble, and does not cost much.
3Apart from his undoubted finish as a workman, and skill as a copyist, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume's title to fame will rest largely on his connection with Tarisio. As we have seen, he not only dealt with him living, but bought all the violins found in the bedroom along with the peasant carpenter's lifeless body.
5His possession of the Messie, which he kept in a glass case, and never allowed any one to touch, was a source of great anxiety to him during the Paris Commune in 1870.
7He writes to Madame Alard, his daughter, who married the celebrated violinist of that name: "In my last I spoke to you of Alard's violin and my Messie, and of certain valuables I have here. I do not know what to do with them, for if one survives, one will be able to recover the valuables when the hubbub is over; and some sous can be buried, but violins cannot be buried." And again: "Where ought I to place all these in case of pillage?"
9He referred chiefly to his violins, and old medals received in the Paris Exhibition from 1827 to 1855, and the Great Exhibition medal in London, 1851.
11Later on we are relieved by reading: "I have found quite a safe hiding-place protected from fire, et puis à la grace de Dieu!"
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