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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1circumspéct." The stranger went away, and Abraham Isaacs reflected. In the course of an hour the owner of the violin returned and asked for his box. But the "old clo'" man had been captivated by the golden bait. What would the gentleman sell his violin for? At first the gentleman would not listen to the proposition, but after a deal of talk he confessed that he was not himself a professor, and could not well afford to keep such a valuable instrument. He would sell it for fifty pounds—not a penny less. Mr. Isaacs paid the money and became the legal possessor of the violin, ready to take anything from two hundred to two hundred and fifty from the director of the orchestra, as he might be able. But the director did not come. At the end of a week Isaacs carried the violin to a professional friend, and asked him what was its real value, before calling on the professor. "Five-and-twenty shillings, without the case!" Abraham Isaacs was strongly of opinion that the gentleman who left the violin in his care was a swindler, that the director was a partner in the business, and that together they had made him their victim. That night old clothes went up ten per cent.
3Fiddling.—Even Tom Hood is inexcusable for such a description of music as this:—"Heaven reward the man who first hit upon the very original notion of sawing the inside of a cat, with the tail of a horse." We never thought he could have been guilty of such violins (violence).
5Fiddle—Irishman's Description of.—"It was the shape of a turkey and the size of a goose, he turned it over
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