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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1In the Workshop of Amati
3with the quick facility and brilliant adaptability of such lads as Mathias Albani, Giovanni Battista Ruggieri, and Antonio Stradivari. Andreas Guarnieri and his little son Giuseppe were also inmates of the workshop, but neither of them were apprentices. The latter was still a tiny child, and the former had been making violins of varying degrees of merit for seventeen years. But everyone under Nicolo Amati's influence worked like slaves, for he permitted no laziness. Perhaps it was thus that Stradivari first acquired his extraordinary genius for industry, the inexhaustible and incomparable energy which was to endure through all the years of his long life.
5Of Ruggieri, Albani, and Grancino we have spoken before; it remains for us now to concern ourselves briefly with the two greatest of all names in violin history, — Stradivari and Guarnieri.
7But first of all let us pause to consider that small slender wizard without which Amati and his successors would have laboured in vain, — the bow.
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