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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1into prisons with improvident artistes; into convents, from which arose, day and night, the holy hymns with which its tones were blended; and back again to orgies, in which it learned to howl and laugh as if a legion of devils were shut up in it: then, again to the gentle dilettante, who calmed it down with easy melodies until it answered him softly as in the days of the old maestros, and so given into our hands, its pores all full of music, stained, like the meerschaum, through and through with the concentrated hue and sweetness of all the harmonies which have kindled and faded on its strings." The gifted author of the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" has evidently made himself acquainted with the various phases in the life of a Violin.
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