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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1my leisure hours, I do so simply because the subject is one which interests but a section of society in this instance, and that section is yourselves.
3In placing these pages before you, I must admit that I feel some little anxiety as to the reception awaiting them. I have lived in the atmosphere of Fiddles all my days, and have, perhaps, possessed peculiar advantages for learning much about them; but whether I have succeeded in conveying to the reader information at once new and interesting remains to be seen. The task was undertaken by me at the suggestion of several friends, who felt that there was room for a more detailed work on the subject than as yet existed, and thus induced me to take the pen in hand. Upon your verdict wholly depends the issue whether I shall have reason to feel indebted to my friends for their counsel or not.
5And now a word or two with regard to the contents of the book. For years I have been impressed with the idea that a work of this kind, illustrated with specimens of the productions of the chief Cremonese makers, would be received with delight by connoisseurs. To know how to carry out this idea with any degree of success was a problem
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