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The reminiscences of a fiddle dealer, 1925
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1Introduction
3Reminiscences at the time they were written, but his illness put a stop to the project and the MSS. lay aside unheeded until his son, Robert, coming across it among his father's papers, sent it to the publishers who at once realized its interest and value.
5The "Alard" Strad. was so called from the famous violinist who formerly owned it. It was one of the finest violins made by Stradivarius and bears the date 1715, thus belonging to his great period, which is considered by connoisseurs to have extended from about 1700 to 1725. The "Alard" was bought in Florence early in the nineteenth century by a banker of Courtrai, in Belgium, and passed at his death into the hands of the late J. B. Vuillaume of Paris, one of the most famous violin makers and experts of the last century. Vuillaume reserved it for his son-in-law, M. Delphin Alard, professor of the violin at the Paris Conservatoire, of European reputation as a virtuoso, in whose possession it remained until he retired from public life in 1876 when it was acquired by Mr. Laurie. It is a Stradivarius of the grand form and of a very handsome model, the arch of the belly and back being of exquisite proportions. The workmanship is between the earlier and later styles of the Master. The neck is original as it left the hands of Stradivarius; it had, however, been lengthened by a piece added at its junction with the upper block of the body. The letters P.S. which are sometimes
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