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Scan 95
The reminiscences of a fiddle dealer, 1925
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 67. See the scan on archive.org.
1Paganini's Pupil
3bring out whatever tone he wished from it. It was by no means a copy as I have before said of Paganini's Guarnerius, which was in all points the crowning glory of Joseph; indeed I never saw a Joseph to compare with Paganini's though I have, of course, seen many whose owners held a different opinion. When I first saw this Vuillaume of Sivori's, which was five-and-twenty years after it was made, it had all the appearance of an old violin carelessly kept. It had, during that time, been regularly played on by its owner, and its table was covered with layers of dust and resin. When I next saw it, which was on the occasion I referred to at M. Gand's, I did not recognise it at first as Sivori's, so entirely changed was its appearance.
5I got the reason of this from M. Sivori. It seemed that while playing in Hungary a short time before, he had been interviewed at a town there, by a violin maker and repairer who was very anxious to see his celebrated violin.
7M. Sivori shewed it to him and, after admiring it, he pointed out that all these years' accumulation of dust and resin were bound to affect the tone as well as spoil the appearance of the violin. This fact had been frequently brought before Sivori and he thought he would just have the table cleaned and be done with it. The maker, therefore, was allowed to take it away with him on the strict understanding that only the dust and resin were to be removed and the
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