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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1with artists. But in his works may be traced an independency of procedure. He understood how to render the effect of these coarser curves milder by a suitable thinness of the parts; and, further, to give the violin model a certain original individuality, by the perfect accordance of all its parts. But for all that, his imitators—and among the Germans he had many—seized now upon this, now upon that detail, partly following up new ideas; and so led the violin manufacture in Germany into bye-paths.
3After Stainer's time, we find—if the labels do not deceive us—Germans established in Cremona; for instance, the two Pfretzhners, and Fricker. From
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