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Scan 252
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
3the second class make a line of paint or ink around the edges of their violins to take the place of the elaborate process so beloved by the old masters.
5One by one the secrets of tone were mastered by the inmates of that long-ago workshop in dreamy Cremona. One by one they learned the pulse of the Heart of Music,—the old master and his silent, alert apprentices as they toiled day by day over fine sheets of wood and heavy glue-pots, over delicate carving and the dexterous blending of gum and balsam and secret ingredients. One by one they mastered the strange, heaven-born tongue of their beloved instrument.
7"This small, sweet thing,
8Devised in love and fashioned cunningly
9Of wood and strings."
11At the time that we have taken a peep into the historic workshop Nicolo Amati was seventy-one, and as yet the master of fiddle-making. His son Geronimo, who worked with him in the shop, never achieved distinction as a violin maker or in any other line. One can imagine the brilliant eyes of the old master flash with impotent resentment from under his gray eyebrows as he glanced from Geronimo to the others, and compared the dull and uninspired work of his son
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