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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1purely external ornamentation is dispensed with, while particular attention is given to the choice of wood and varnish. The tone is distinguished more by sweetness than grandeur. The reform brought about by Amati was adopted more or less by the rest of the violin makers. Cremona was, from this time, the chief seat, and the high school of the violin manufacture. Even Brescia relinquished by degrees its peculiarities; and the last maker who honourably represented this town, Johann Bapt. Ruger, of Bologna, was educated in the school of the Amati.
3But the ideal of the violin was not yet attained to. That was reserved
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