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Scan 199
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Gray Friar and Others
3His painstaking, unhurried work is shown not only in the instruments which he left, but in the fact that in his entire life he made only fifty violins and less than two dozen violoncellos and tenors.
5These men, while not the world-hailed masters of their craft, were fine workmen, earnest artists, and true music lovers. To them, working in small shops and spending years of love and labour upon their instruments, belongs as much credit as to Stradivarius, creating masterpieces with the genius that comes in a white flame from the gods, so seldom that men may count the occasions of its coming.
7Gasparo da Salò, cutting the heavy wood for his big deep-voiced instruments, and working out with his Titanic, uncompromising brain the principles that a Guarnerius was one day to accept humbly; Maggini, toiling for eighteen months upon one fiddle; the Gray Friar, sitting from red sunset to silver dawn in his cloister cell, cutting and carving by the light of a half burned taper, or a primitive, sputtering lamp,—these men had the touch of the gods upon them, after all; their ears were very close to the Heart of Music.
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