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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1instruments of this maker have been classed into three distinct epochs, and there is every reason to believe that he also adopted three different sizes of build, a large, a medium, and a small. His first instruments were of small dimensions, with short and narrow f holes, having lofty archings, whilst the heads and scrolls were of diminished model, but beautiful finish. Those early instruments are now of the utmost rarity, and bore labels inscribed in his own handwriting, and were dated from Cremona. About the commencement of his second period he married the daughter of Anthony Amati, and this phase of life was marked by misfortune, genuine art having succumbed to carelessness, whilst poverty in all its icy coldness surrounded his home circle, compelling him to travel with his now crude and imperfect instruments, which he gladly, but with difficulty disposed of, for the diminutive sum of six florins. During this his second epoch he returned from Cremona to his native town Absom, where he hastily manufactured a vast number of instruments. Most of the violins of this period were of very inferior quality, and bore little or no trace of the hand of genius. They contained printed labels, and were dated from 1650 to 1667. It is related that during part of this period his brother Mark, who was a monk, frequently chose to exchange the monotonous routine and retirement of the cloister for the practical operations of the workshop, and thus assiduously assisted him in his labours. Now again, however, the dying embers of genius are fortunately fanned into a flame, which bursts afresh with redoubled effulgence, and
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