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Scan 16
The violin : how to choose one, 1893
2 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 12. See the scan on archive.org.
1perfect violins. Why did the Messie Stradivari bring £2,000? Simply because it had been kept to look at from the hour it was finished; and was varnished full, and has not even a chin mark on it at the present moment. Begin this new form of violin-collecting at once, then, ye millionaires, always distinguishing between the violin which is made and that which is merely manufactured, and the blessings of hundreds now living and millions to come shall crown your memories. The extraordinary prices up to which the best Cremona violins have been forced, is the least sin for which the collector of old violins is accountable. He deprives good players of the use of them; but, worst of all, he robs thousands, nay, millions, of the rapture of hearing them. With voices in them which might rouse many of us like the call of angels, these violins are doomed by the collector to eternal silence. Maledicite! Maledicite!
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