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Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1VIOLINS AT CREMONA
3then you roll off Chopin and Mendelssohn perfectly, though you can scarce play your scales! Since then Vuillaume's sound-bar has been replaced with a stronger one by Messrs. Hill. It seemed to me quite perfect before, but I suppose one must bow to experts in such matters.
5The best opinion limits the number of instruments which Strad made to about two thousand, only eight hundred of which at most are known to be extant. Compared with any other maker except Vuillaume, both as regards output and survival of work, Strad probably bears the palm.
7An elaborate description, a careful portraiture of every known Strad, together with its history, as far as recoverable, I must leave for some more gifted and industrious recorder. I believe Messrs. Hill are preparing the most complete monograph on Stradivari which has ever yet or is ever likely to appear, and I only wish I could dip into their MS. and steal a few pages. It will certainly, when it appears, be a monumental work, and there is no time to lose, as many of these gems are known to have been destroyed, others dismembered, whilst some are at the bottom of the sea. There are, however, a few more famous specimens, which are of such unique interest that they cannot be passed over even in so general a survey as this.
9Mr. Croall (1897) of Edinburgh is the happy owner of M. Artôt's Strad, varnished dark red, quite perfect, and one of the finest known for tone; it is dated 1716. Lady Hallé still plays on Ernst's violin, bought for
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