Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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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

11 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 270. See the scan on archive.org.

A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.

1declined to do so; in fact, though for the last few years of his life he gave up public performance, he resolutely refused most tempting offers for his treasure—£800—to use an auctioneer's phrase, "having been offered in two places," and respectfully declined. In his youthful days he decided that his cherished Gaspard should return to the place from whence he obtained it, the monastery of San Marco, and this wish was accordingly fulfilled by his executors in the year 1846. The occasion was one of much interest; it was felt by Dragonetti's friends and admirers that to consign the instrument upon which he had so often astonished and delighted them with the magic tones he drew from it, to the care of those who possibly knew nothing of its merits, was matter for regret.
3Being desirous of furnishing the reader with all the information possible relative to Signor Dragonetti's instrument, I communicated with Mr. Samuel Appleby, who was his legal adviser, and probably better acquainted with him than any other person in this country. He very kindly sent me the following particulars, which are interesting:
5"Brighton,
62nd July, 1875.
8"MY DEAR SIR,
9"Your letter of yesterday needs no apology, as it will afford me pleasure at any time to give you any information in my power respecting the late Signor Dragonetti, having known him well from 1796 to his death.
10"His celebrated Gaspard di Salo instrument, or

The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.