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The Story of the Violin, 1914
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1Contents
3workmanship—Gems of different form and colour—Fourth period—In prison—The end—Greatest master after Stradivari—The first-rank master period ends ………………………………………….. 128
5CHAPTER XXIII.
6THE ART OF VIOLIN-MAKING IN FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND GERMANY.
8France.—No luthiers of renown till later—The best known—Contribution small—Clever imitators.
9England.—English workers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and later—Some instances showing originality—Faithful imitators.
10Germany.—A difference—A founder—Imitators—Dabbling of cranks—Sound makers—Wholesale production ………………………………………….. 136
12CHAPTER XXIV.
13IS IT A SECRET?
14Only three conditions possible—About wood—About age—About varnish—About workmanship or art—Conclusion ………………………………………….. 145
16PART II.
17VIOLIN-PLAYING AND VIOLIN-PLAYERS.
19CHAPTER I.
20PRÆLUDIUM.
22Father and founder of artistic violin-playing—A style of composition for the new instrument—A sure and broad founda-
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