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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
28 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 176. See the scan on archive.org.
1The material he used was generally good in point of acoustical properties, though not handsome. Storioni does not appear to have made many Tenors or Violoncellos—the latter are rarely met with.
3Storioni died in 1799. He lived at the house No. 3, Contrada Coltellai, which was afterwards occupied by G. B. Ceruti.
5Stradivari, Antonio, Cremona.
7"The instrument on which he played
8Was in Cremona's workshops made,
9By a great master of the past,
10Ere yet was lost the art divine;
11Fashioned of maple and of pine,
12That in Tyrolian forests vast
13Had rocked and wrestled with the blast;
14Exquisite was it in design,
15A marvel of the lutist's art,
16Perfect in each minutest part;
17And in its hollow chamber, thus,
18The maker from whose hands it came
19Had written his unrivalled name—
20'Antonius Stradivarius.'—Longfellow.
22The renown of this remarkable maker of Violins is beyond that of all others; his praise has been sung alike by poet, artist, and musician.
24Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis
25Faciebat Anno 17—
27His magic name is ever rising to the lips in the presence of the "king of instruments"; its sound is as familiar to the humble player as to the finished artist. He has received the undisputed homage of two centuries, and time seems but to add to the number
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