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The reminiscences of a fiddle dealer, 1925
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 27. See the scan on archive.org.
1Two Celebrated 'Celloists, Father and Son
3He was well advanced in years when I made his acquaintance and not very long afterwards he died in the little town of Hal, south of Brussels, where he was born and brought up. His fellow townsmen have honoured him by erecting a fine granite statue to his memory. The figure is life-size, holding a bow in the right hand, while on the left side stands the celebrated large Strad. 'cello.
5He was a man greatly liked for his kindness of heart and genial manner to all with whom he came in contact.
7One of his sons succeeded him in his position as principal 'celloist in the Brussels Conservatoire of Music, and the first time I heard the Strad. 'cello played was at a grand concert in the Hall of Harmony, when M. Servais fils played it. He played in a quartette: Wieniasky taking first fiddle, Collins second, the third I forget, and Servais fils fourth. When the 'cello took up the theme in its turn, I was both surprised and disappointed that it had such an inside quality of tone—tonneaux or tubby as we would call it. I knew that such a large instrument, having such high arches would have that tone to a slight extent, but did not expect it to be nearly so pronounced. During the interval, between the first and second parts of the programme, I went out and made inquiries, and was not long in discovering the reason.
9It seemed that the platform on which the
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