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The Violin: Its Famous Makers and their Imitators, 1875
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1Contents.
3SECTION XII.—GERMAN AND DUTCH MAKERS.
5Alphabetical list of German Makers; their work and characteristics … … … … … 208—222
6Albani, father and son; earliest German Makers … 208
7Jacobs of Amsterdam; his work frequently credited to Amati … … … … … 212
8Sebastian Klotz; his Instruments highly valued … 213
9Jacob Stainer; high appreciation of his work; his model inferior to the Italian; his visits to Cremona; his original genius; high character of his workmanship; the "Elector Stainers;" his partial conversion to the Italian model; his early history obscure; his name very frequently pirated … … 216—220
11SECTION XIII.—THE VIOLIN AND ITS VOTARIES.
13The King of Instruments pays a double debt to its votaries, gratifying eye and ear … … … … 223
14Wendell Holmes's tribute of admiration … … … 224
15The Violin: its gradual growth as a curiosity … … 225
16Early prices in England and in Germany … … 226
17Late introduction of Italian Instruments into Great Britain 227
18Slow but sure advance of the tide of their fortunes 228 et seq.
19Paganini brings out Guarnerius del Jesù to the daylight … 231
20Interesting circumstances connected with that event … 231
21Maggini's instruments, chaperoned by Charles de Bériot, rise immensely in value … … … … 233
22Louis Tarisio, his singular history and great services as a Collector … … … … … 235
23Dealers in and Collectors of Violins … … … 247
24The Gillott Collection, and its arrangement for auction … 250
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