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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1and died in 1737. He appears to have commenced violin making at the early age of 23 years, his last one having been made when he was at the advanced age of 92. During his long and active lifetime he made a vast number of instruments, and his average charge for each appears to have been about £4. The violins of this maker which are esteemed the most valuable, have been made from about 1700 to 1727, and after this latter period, his instruments deteriorate in quality. His finest instruments may be said to possess the following esteemed qualities—delicacy, mellowness, free power, penetrating brilliancy, and roundness of tone. It is related by Forster that he sent a number of violins to a merchant in London, Cervetto (who was a countryman of his own), to be disposed of at a sum equivalent to £4 each, but he having failed to realize such an amount, they were returned to the artist.
3How vast and giddy are the rapid changes which time imprints in its onward course even on violin value, as where is the amateur now-a-days who would not gladly bestow £4 upon an instrument by this renowned maker? The highest sum which has ever been given for any violin by this maker has been £600,
5manufactures. One of the principal objects which meets the traveller's gaze approaching Cremona is the famous Torazzo, or belfry tower, which is one of the loftiest in Italy, and is seen from a considerable distance. The poet Virgil is supposed to have been born in this town, and to have received his education at Andes, between Mantua and Cremona. Low marshy lands being contiguous, render the suburbs unhealthy. A canal passes through the town, and joins the Po, which is navigable from here to the sea.
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