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The reminiscences of a fiddle dealer, 1925

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1CONTENTS

3INTRODUCTION …………………………………………….. xiii

5CHAPTER I

6MY FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH FIDDLES

7The violin and its position in Scotland in my early days

8—Its wonderful appeal to me—Life at a Scottish

9"Ferm Town"—Two gallant fiddlers—The

10family heirloom—A fiddle and bow, not forgetting

11the green bag—"Cremona!"—Lessons

12in playing the fiddle ……………………………………… 1

14CHAPTER II

15THE ITALIAN TONE

16I make good progress in playing and remove to Glasgow

17—I hear Vieuxtemps at a concert—His "Joseph

18Guarnerius"—My ignorance about violins—A

19Glasgow fiddle-maker—The greatest expert

20on violins in Scotland—The "Ailsa Craig"—

21My first sight of a Strad. …………………………………. 7

23CHAPTER III

24M. JANSEN'S 'CELLO

25I go abroad—N. F. Vuillaume at Brussels—An Amati

26'cello—A labour of love—Barak Norman and other

27English violin makers ……………………………………… 15

29CHAPTER IV

30AN UNPROMISING PURCHASE

31A consignment of Italian instruments from Milan—

32Their primitive condition—My troubles with

33them—My lesson from them, and their sale—

34Italy's lack of Italian fiddles ……………………………… 22

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