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The heart of music : the story of the violin, 1906

9 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1and 1400), who were both Orientalists, and Fra Costanzo, a monk of the order of the Umiliati, who made a specialty of Aristotle's philosophy early in the fifteenth century.
3The name Stradivari is the plural form of Stradivare, the Lombard variation of Stradiere, from Stratarius, which meant a douanier, or toll-gatherer, such as were stationed on the Stradi or highroads for the purpose of levying road-taxes from passers-by. The office was a feudal one, and in itself alone shows the antiquity of the house, though it marks no suggestion of nobility of birth or even of distinguished position. one of two readings
4The name Stradivari is the plural form of Stradivare, the Lombard variation of Stradiere, from Stratiarius, which meant a douanier, or toll-gatherer, such as were stationed on the Stradi or highroads for the purpose of levying road-taxes from passers-by. The office was a feudal one, and in itself alone shows the antiquity of the house, though it marks no suggestion of nobility of birth or even of distinguished position. one of two readings
6They were commonplace burgher-folk enough, the Stradivari; and who could have guessed that such a simple pair as Alessandro Stradivari, the citizen, and Anna Moroni, his good housewife, could have, by any queer freak of fate, chance, or heredity, become the parents of one of the world's most unchallenged geniuses? One wonders if they felt premonitions of his greatness, and were disturbed thereby, when he was still a laughing baby with no higher aims than milk and warmth and the cradling motion that puts one to sleep if one is little.
8Of many violin makers we may say "He was a master," but of Stradivari alone we can declare

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