Scan 507
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
13 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 411. See the scan on archive.org.
1the difference is—one is driven by the whip-hand, the other by the bow-arm; one deals in stakado, the other in staccato. As a thoroughbred hound discovers, by instinct, his game from all other animals, so an experienced musician feels the compositions of Handel or Corelli.—Yours, TIMOTHY CATGUT, Stamford."—Monthly Mirror.
3ORIGIN OF TARTINI'S "DEVIL'S SONATA."
5The following interesting account of this marvellous composition was given by Tartini to M. de Lalande, the celebrated astronomer:—
7"One night in the year 1713, I dreamed that I had made a compact with his Satanic Majesty, by
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12which he was received into my service. Everything succeeded to the utmost of my desire, and my every
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