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Scan 69
The violin maker, 1905
14 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 63. See the scan on archive.org.
1very kindly, for the name of Amati was the best credential he could have carried with him.
3But here, also, Klotz was forced to learn that jealousy is a plant which grows in most hearts and can be rooted out only with great care.
5The workman next him was named Enrico Lomo, a not unskillful fellow; but he thought much too highly of his own work, and lived in the belief that he was perfect master of his art.
7Klotz, of a peaceful nature, tried to keep on good terms with Lomo as much as possible; he never provoked him by contradiction, although nine times out of ten he was in the right, and accommodated himself to the other's views whenever it was possible to do so without injury to his reputation.
9"Now, what dost thou think?" Lomo asked the German one day. "Who is really the first master in our profession?"
11"In Germany it was Jacob Stainer——"
13"Ah, Germany!" cried Enrico, derisively. "There men work only after the Italian models. There is only one land for violin making, and that is Italy."
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