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Ole Bull: a memoir; with Ole Bull's 'Violin notes' and A. B. Crosby's 'Anatomy of the violinist', 1897
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1month, and stayed on indefinitely. When his clothes grew threadbare, his friends would give him a new suit and a benefit concert, from which he often received some hundreds of dollars.
3Ole's parents were not pleased with the neglect of his studies, caused by his fondness for the violin, and their intention of entirely forbidding him the instrument was hanging like a thunder-cloud above his head, when, on his eighth birthday, he gained a decisive victory.
5One Tuesday evening Paulsen played, as usual, the first violin in Uncle Jens's quartette. But when they left the supper-table he was hopelessly hors de combat. In this unfortunate dilemma good-natured Uncle Jens shouted, "Now, Ole, you shall play in Paulsen's stead! Come, my boy, do your best, and you shall have a stick of candy!" at the same time handing him Paulsen's violin. The half-serious, half-joking command Ole accepted in earnest. A quartette of Pleyel, which he had heard several times, was chosen, and his memory served him faithfully; to the astonishment of all, he played each movement correctly. He not only executed the difficult passages, but marked the rests,—in short, gave it as an artist should.
7This was his first triumph, with all its train of consequences. His delighted uncle immediately
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