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The fiddle fancier's guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers of these instruments, 1892
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11645, to a Margaretha Holzhammer, and had nine children. He was unfortunate in his business, fell into debt, and died, out of his mind, in 1683. His house is pointed out in Absam, and the bench to which he was bound when he died mad. His label is written.
3Storioni, Lorenzo, 1751—1798. A Cremonese maker who is generally called the last of the fine school. His instruments cannot be called pretty, but the wood is very fine, and gives a most excellent tone. He employed a spirit varnish which sometimes appears to have actually sunk into the wood. Many of his instruments are of very broad grain in the upper table, and he certainly is not graceful in his outline, as, frequently, his work looks almost shapeless. Many instruments having this broad grain and unattractive appearance are called Storioni work. His model is Joseph Guarnerius. He made some magnificent double basses, and the tickets "Laurentius Storioni fecit Cremonæ—" are not so often genuine as one could wish.
5Stradivari, Antonio, Cremona. This maker is, as every one probably knows, the greatest artiste in the matter of violins that has ever lived. The year of his birth is supposed to be 1644, and the place Cremona. The interest which his work has aroused regarding him has been so keen that people, for lack of information directly concerning himself, have taken to hunting up the name in old registers in Cremona for the purpose of finding, presumably, how far back they can trace it. Up to the present the year 1213 is the earliest recorded date concerning an entry of a name bearing a likeness to that of our great fiddle maker. In a practical work
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