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The Salabue Stradivari. A history and critical description of the famous violin, commonly called "le Messie." Containing many particulars obtained from authentic sources and now published for the first time, 1891
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1Nevertheless it is our opinion after a careful trial that the instrument would be greatly improved in tone by further use.
3These descriptions of one of the finest instruments in existence, from the hands of devoted and disinterested lovers of the Cremona handiwork, leave hardly anything to be added except the exact measurements of the violin, which are as follows:—
5Height of sides:—At the top, 1 3/8 inches; at the bottom, 1 1/4 inches.
7The label affixed to Le Messie is presented below in fac-simile.
9Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis
10Faciebat Anno 1716
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