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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators. : With several wood engravings from photographs of the works of Stradiuarius, Guarnerius, Amati, and others, 1880
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1by the works of the Amatis at the height of their popularity.
3There were a few Stradiuarius instruments in England when Amati was the favourite maker, and their value at that period may be estimated from the fact that Cervetto, the father of the famous violoncellist was unable to dispose of a Stradiuarius Violoncello for five pounds, a circumstance which shows how blind our forefathers were to the merits of the greatest maker the world has had. Among the artistes of the early part of the present century who used the instruments of Stradiuarius were Boccherini, Viotti, Rode, Kreutzer, Habeneck, Mazas, Lafont, and Bailliot.
5About the year 1820 the fame of Joseph Guarnerius as a great maker was published beyond Italy, chiefly through the instrumentality of Paganini. That wondrous player came to possess a splendid specimen of Guarnerius del Jesù, dated 1743, now sleeping in the museum at Genoa, which Paganini used in his tour through France and England. He became the owner of this world-famed Violin in the following curious manner. A French merchant (M. Livron) lent him the instrument to play upon at a concert at Leghorn. When the concert had concluded, Paganini brought it back to its owner, when M. Livron exclaimed, "Never will I profane strings which your fingers have touched; that instrument is yours." A more fitting present or higher compliment could not have been offered. The names of Amati and Stradiuarius became familiar to the musical world gradually, but Guarnerius, in the hands of a Paganini, came forth at a bound. This illustrious Violin was
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