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the history of the violin, 1864
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1up. In the mean time Mr. Schetky had married, and remained at Edinburgh following his profession, where his talent, polished manners, and generous character caused him to associate with the best society, and he was on intimate terms with many of the distinguished literary characters of his time, and he died there at an advanced age in the year 1824. He was particularly admired for his fine adagio playing, and the delicate expression of the cantabile; his own compositions are pleasing, particularly some of his pathetic passages, and one of the last pieces that Lindley played with a friend, after his retirement, was one of Schetky's duetts. John Christian Schetky, Esq., the present well known and accomplished marine painter to the Queen, is his son, and possesses a genuine taste and feeling for music.
3In 1783 Joseph Koempfer came over here. He was an extraordinary performer on the double-bass, playing difficult violin passages on it, and particularly excelled in the use of the harmonics. He also invented a most useful variety of the instrument, which could be taken to pieces for the convenience of travelling. He was eclipsed, as all others were, by that giant in power and talent, Dragonetti, whom we shall mention in the ensuing chapter.
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