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The heart of music : the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3One of his friends—made perhaps while in Italy, but more probably through that journey of genius into France marshalled by the Italian cardinal—was Leonardo da Vinci, and more than one of the most original and beautiful designs on Tieffenbrücker's instruments were the work of this great artist.
5Our "luthier's" troubles were not yet entirely over; a knavish sculptor named Baccio Bandinelli, renowned for his sly, thieving propensities, claimed as his many of Tieffenbrücker's own designs, and injured the lutanist's good repute in several instances. But Bandinelli was too noted a thief to have any serious or lasting effect upon the name and fame of a master of Tieffenbrücker's standing.
7His last years were spent peacefully and prosperously enough, so far as we know, and the probability is that he died in Lyons, where he had worked during his last and most successful years. Of this, however, there is only circumstantial evidence.
9Much of Tieffenbrücker's life is so vaguely and often so contradictorily chronicled in various histories that it is hard to even gain such an idea of him and of his work as may seem likely to be reasonably true. But, after all, in such dilemmas
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