Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906

4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 36. See the scan on archive.org.

1The first of these consists in the examination of church-registers, and of such trade-registers as are still in existence. This is a task for clergymen, communal officers, keepers of archives, and local historians.
3On the preparation for the Vienna Exhibition, I had, already, this and similar objects in view. The Italian Government was to have been petitioned to give the impulse—for it must be regarded as the national duty of Italy to throw more light upon a branch of art in which it attained to the highest rank. To the Germans may be recommended a similar procedure, with regard to the names of native artists, who, as we shall see here-

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