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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1goldleaf, as well as the maker's name, Dardelli. What romance went into this lovely little instrument no one will ever know; it was a triumph of the art of the sixteenth century "luthiers" and the child of the Gray Friar's dearest dreams.
3It was by his viols, however, that he won his really serious and important place in musical history. His most famous violin is the one still on exhibition in the museum at South Kensington. Its sound-holes are circular instead of f-shaped, and it has no bass bar, so that it could never support the normal tension of the strings, but its sound-post is modern in character and position, and its four strings correspond in tuning to the four strings of the perfected violin. In his quiet convent cell, the Gray Friar worked out more than one of the fundamental principles of violin-making.
5Dardelli's pupils were several, and his followers many. Notable among the former were Morglato Morella, of Mantua, and Peregrino (or Pelegrino) Zanetto, of Brescia. Morella, sometimes called Morglato, of Mantua, was barely more than an enthusiastic imitator, but Zanetto was a really remarkable man. His tenors and double basses were immensely superior to his violins, but he has one immortal distinction. He is reputed to
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