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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1violin virtuosity reached its zenith, hardly a trace is left of Italian violin manufacture. It would seem that the power of its representatives ceased immediately on the attainment of the long sought for ideal. After Straduari and Guarneri, it still continued for a time to assert itself under several of their pupils and contemporaries; but, in the hands of the immediate successors of these latter, its degeneration became more and more apparent; and before long, the manufacture had entirely vanished. Peculiarly enough, a foreigner—the Frenchman, Michel Decouet, concluded the period which had been commenced by Germans.
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