Scan 36
The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
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3—The Ettrick Shepherd and the Violin—The Fiddle Trade: "Old Borax," and "Michael Schnapps," the Fiddle-ogre—The Prince and the "Fugal Vortex"—Sale of Cremonese Instruments at Milan in 1790—An Indefatigable Violinist—A Wish—Living Stradivaris—Pleasures of Imagination—A Royal Amateur—Pius IX. and the Musician—Ole Bull and Fiddle Varnish—Letter from Tartini on the Treatment of the Violin … … 371—450
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