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Scan 48
The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1his latest biographers, remain undecided. He was unable to withdraw himself from the influence of the Amati, as his—truly but seldom genuine—works (imitations, bearing the name of his firm, particularly from the old Mettenwalder manufactory, are circulated by hundreds), show. He went to greater extremes in the curve of the breasts than was justified by the model of Nicholas Amati, whereby his instruments acquired a peculiar—from the Italian—widely-differing quality of tone, more resembling that of a flute than of strings—which, however, was not wanting in beauty, and formerly enjoyed general appreciation, although at the present day it finds no favour
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