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Scan 33
The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 25. See the scan on archive.org.
1for Antonius Straduarius,* who, like Amati, sprang from an illustrious Cremonese family. A pupil of Nicholas Amati, he followed at first in the footsteps of his master; but soon struck out into new paths, in his endeavours to attain to perfection; and these endeavours occupied him more than half of his long life—he was born in 1644, and died in 1737—until, at the turn of the century, he attained to his ideal—sweetness and grandeur of tone
3* The names of the various masters mentioned in this sketch, are, for the most part, Latinized; this change having, usually, been undertaken by the masters themselves. Therefore, for Antonius may be read Antonio; Hieronymus—Geronimo; Guarnerius Guarneri or Guarnerio; Straduarius—Straduari or Straduario, etc., etc.—W. E. L.
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