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The reminiscences of a fiddle dealer, 1925
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 68. See the scan on archive.org.
1The Fiddle Dealer
3Vuillaume varnish underneath was to be left intact. Some time after the man had departed with the fiddle, it suddenly struck Sivori that he had made a mistake, perhaps a great one, in allowing him to take it away without knowing a little more about him. He had not even understood the name the man gave nor his address; all he knew was that he was a maker and repairer of violins. It was far on in the evening before he thought of all this and too late to hope to find him that night, and Sivori spent a sleepless night, a prey to great misgivings on the subject of his beloved violin.
5At a very early hour next morning, he rose and went downstairs only to find that no one else was up and he had once more to wait as patiently as he could for some of the hotel staff to make their appearance. When the servants did appear, he appealed to them for the name and address of the maker but none of them could enlighten him on the subject. At last one of the waiters who had travelled a bit, had a bright idea. They could apply at the Post Office he said and Sivori enlisting his aid, they went off together to the Post Office where they got a list of the violin makers in the town. Armed with this, they started on a round of visits until they came to the man they sought. He also was up early and diligently at work on the fiddle, all too diligently, alas, for he had not only cleaned off the dust and the resin from the table but the
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