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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1diuarius by referring to the engraving of them in this work. The varnish on the instruments belonging to the period under consideration is very varied. Sometimes it is of a rich golden colour, deliciously soft and transparent; in other instances he has used varnish of a deeper hue, which might be described as light red, the quality of which is also very beautiful. We find this varnish chiefly on those instruments where he has made his backs in two parts, and also on whole backs. The purfling is narrower than that afterwards used.
3We now arrive at the time when Stradiuarius made, together with the form of instrument just described, that known to connoisseurs as the "long Strad." We have here a totally differently constructed instrument; it is less graceful, although there is no absence of the masterly hand throughout the work. It has received the title of "long Strad" not from increased length, as the name would imply, but from the appearance of additional length which its narrowness gives it, and which is particularly observable between the sound-holes. The dimensions of these instruments vary considerably; in some the width across the lower portion is but a shade less than that of his full size "Amatese" instruments; but in the upper part the dimension is more marked. On these, again, there is much variation in the tone of the varnish, many having his beautiful amber-coloured varnish, others a pale red, of great transparency. In the year 1687 he made
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