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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1opened up in the registers of births, marriages, and deaths. At present, this source has only been made use of with regard to the Amati, Straduari, and Guarneri, through the unwearying efforts of J. B. Vuillaume, who has regarded it as a pious duty towards his illustrious models; and by S. Ruf, who is to be accredited with similar researches respecting Stainer.
3In the case then of these masters, connoisseurs are no longer likely to be deceived by labels of instruments dating from a time when the makers were either dead or not yet born, or were still boys at school. Such anachronisms occurred repeatedly in the announcements for the Vienna Exhibi-
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