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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1the quatuor of instruments for the Spanish Court, inlaid with ivory, and having a beautiful scroll work running round the sides and scroll. On Plate 18 is one of the instruments mentioned, which was originally in the possession of Ole Bull, and afterwards in the collection of Mr. Charles Plowden. The Viola belonging to this quatuor has lost its ivory work, a blemish which is to be regretted, destroying as it does the completeness of the set. He also made about this period some very small Violins with similar designs, instruments evidently made to order.
3Fortified with the vast experience which these variously constructed instruments had enabled him to gather, he would seem to have marshalled all his forces in order to enter on an entirely new campaign, one that should be alike glorious to himself and his art. That he succeeded in achieving all that he could have desired my readers will have an opportunity of judging by the evidence I propose to offer. It was about the year 1700 when Stradiuarius entered upon a new era in his art. All his past labours appear to have been only measures preliminary to that which he proposed afterwards to accomplish, and were made for the purpose of testing, to the minutest degree, the effects of particular modifications in the form and thicknesses of his works.
5If we stay to consider for a moment the field of research traversed by Stradiuarius before entering upon what may be not inaptly named, the golden
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