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Scan 198
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1The Heart of Music
3ones which have been owned by De Beriot, the Belgian violinist, by Léonard, Ole Bull, and Vieuxtemps. De Beriot found his in a Paris curiosity shop, and bought it for fifteen francs! It was last reported to be in the possession of Prince de Chimay.
5Maggini's work is occasionally confused with that of Barak Norman, a fine old English maker, but his scroll work alone, which is purfled and highly ornamental, should be the hallmark of his individuality in creation.
7Maggini was unusually successful in a pecuniary as well as an artistic sense. This was probably due to the fact that he had the good sense to marry Anna Forestro, who had a large dowry, and could enable her husband to leave Gasparo and start out for himself. They had six children, and Maggini was one of the most honoured citizens in Brescia, as well as one of the most contented of householders.
9He instituted many innovations in instrument making, being one of the first men, for instance, to cut his wood wedgeways instead of in slabs, as the old "luthiers" had been accustomed to do. But when he was only fifty-one, he died suddenly and wretchedly, in the terrible plague that swept Brescia in 1623.
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