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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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1most beautiful manner—like a thickish cord rising up from the marginal groove—and his edges are rounded very sweetly. His arching is somewhat after that of his father in the earlier style of the "grand" pattern—not so graceful in any point, but having a little of the paternal feeling for all that. The cutting in of his middle bouts betrays the same influence, but they are not so artistic and have the appearance of being deeper and longer—which they really are except in regard to the father's model, which is called the "long" pattern. His varnish—in what I have seen—is of a reddish, golden brown, soft and transparent like his father's, but not so brilliant. His sound holes appear more straightly cut than his father's, and have their terminal wings not so square or broad. They are also placed a little lower. The corners of his middle bouts are also more pointed. His scrolls are slightly different, the volute appearing to be rather long, but not ungraceful, in front, and narrowing steadily towards the top. He made very few instruments, and they are exceedingly rare. His tickets run "Franciscus Stradivarius Cremonensis Filius. Antonii faciebat anno."
3Stradivari, Omobono, Cremona. Born 14th November, 1679. Died 9th June, 1742. This maker is the only other son of Antonio who became a violin maker. I am not acquainted with his work. He appears to have been chiefly employed in making repairs. There is a ticket which, it is said, he used, and which runs "Omobonus Stradiuarius figlij Antonij Cremone," etc. I should very much doubt that he ever was such a donkey, or at least, that he used such an inscription
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