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The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
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1to supply the Royal Chapel with an entirely new equipment of fourteen violins, four violas, six 'cellos and four double basses.
3Spohr relates how he acquired his Lupot violin at Münster, while he was on his first journey to Italy. He was the guest of a manufacturer there, an ardent lover of music, who had formed an orchestra consisting of some of his officials and workmen. The leader of the orchestra played on a Lupot then thirty years old: and Spohr was so struck by the full and powerful tone of the instrument, that he persuaded the owner to exchange with him for an Italian violin which he had bought in Brunswick. Spohr afterwards bought a fine Strad from Madame Schlick, of Gotha.
5In our own day, Gand and Vuillaume possessed undoubted talent; but the chief merit of their productions is that they are beautifully finished, though they cannot for a moment be compared with those of the old masters.
7Vuillaume, who carried on his business on a great scale, and with all the advantages of capital at his back, and an active spirit of investigation to urge him on, studied deeply the theory which underlay the art of violin making; and he placed at the disposal of Savart, the French philosopher, the most costly and valuable specimens of the old Italian makers for the purposes of experiment, the full results of which have long since appeared in print. We have also Vuillaume to thank for practically the whole history of the art, to gather materials for which he several times travelled to Italy, and, with perseverance worthy of all praise, spent both money and labour in the task of getting together all sorts of information as to dates and other details respecting the great Cremonese masters. The results of his labours were given to the world in his famous work, "Antonio Stradivari; Paris. Vuillaume, violin maker, 1856," which was carefully edited by Fétis.
9SPAIN.
11We only know of one violin maker in Spain, Carole-
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