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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1considerable value. He then recounted the circumstances attending its purchase, with which the reader is familiar.
3DOMENICO DRAGONETTI.—HIS GASPARD DI SALO.
5Signor Dragonetti succeeded Berini as primo basso in the orchestra of the chapel belonging to the monastery of San Marco, Venice, in his eighteenth year. The procurators of the monastery, wishing to show their high appreciation of his worth, presented the youthful player with a magnificent Contra-Bass, by Gaspard di Salo, which had been made expressly for the chapel orchestra of the convent of St. Peter, by the famous Brescian maker.
7Upon an eventful night, the inmates of the monastery retired to rest, when they were awakened by deep rumbling and surging sounds, which they concluded was the preface of a terrific thunderstorm. Unable to find repose whilst these noises rent the air, they decided to visit the chapel; and the nearer they got to it, the louder the sounds became. Regarding each other with looks of mingled fear and curiosity, they reached the chapel, opened the door, and there stood the innocent cause of their fright, Domenico Dragonetti, immersed in the performance of some gigantic passage of a range extending from the nut to the bridge, on his newly acquired Gaspard. For some time neither "Drago" nor his nocturnal visitors were aware of the presence of each other.
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