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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1921
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1Payne says: "Whoever may have been the instructor of Joseph Guarnerius, his real master was Gasparo da Salò. He revived the bold and rugged outline and the masterly carelessness, and with it the massive build and powerful tone of the earlier school. Perfection of form and style had been attained by others; tone was the main quality sought by Joseph, and the endless variety of his work, in size, in model, and in cutting of sound-holes, merely indicates the many ways in which he sought it."
3From the first, Giuseppe, or Guarnerius as he is called, scorned the restrictions of what one writer terms "the geometrical curves, fineness of finish, and softness of tone" of the Amati family. He studied their violins as he studied those of his kinsmen, as he studied Albani's, Ruggieri's, Stainer's, Stradivari's; but his impatience discarded the exquisite colouring of a Pietro of Venice instrument or the careful finish of one by Nicolo Amati. He wanted tone—tone—tone, and always tone. Who cared for the body? It was the soul he was trying to find and fetter.
5To the old Salò instruments he turned with an inevitable and peculiar tenderness. Here was the voice that cried and commanded,—not the
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