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The violin: some account of that leading instrument, and its most eminent professors, from its earliest date to the present time;, 1878
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1—means of producing a smooth, clear tone—ANDREAS AMATI—GASPAR DE SALO—GIOVANNI GRANZINO—GIOVANNI PAOLO MAGINI—career of ANTONIO STRADIVARI, GIUSEPPE GUARNERI, and of JACOB STEINER—notable sums offered for instruments—imitators—RICHARD DUKE and the London makers—M. CHANOT’s investigation into the true form of the violin—result—M. SAVART’s experiments—M. VUILLAUME’s copies—his adventures in search of materials—copies Paganini’s Guarnerius—his probity—specimens at the Great Exhibition of All Nations—construction of bows—Beware of Vampers!—pp. 341, et seq.
3CHAPTER X.
5MISCELLANEOUS ANECDOTES, COLLECTED SCRAPS, ECCENTRIC VARIETIES, &c.
7Characteristics of the fiddle species—a caricature repudiated—ambition let down—a new resource in difficulty—a prejudice overcome—fifty years’ fiddling—another fifty years of it—glory made out of shame—discrimination—the Cremona fiddle—an apt quotation—the leading instrument victorious—sending for time-keepers—musical exaction—a device for a dinner—a ‘practising’ coachman—a footman to match—a royal ‘whereabout’—precocious performers—fiddlers’ tricks—eccentric varieties of the violin kind—the fiddle of Ireland—of Tartary—African fiddle—Greek fiddle—an eight-stringed violin—an intermediate instrument—something more than a violin—an air violin—automaton violinist—the street-fiddler—epigrams.—pp. 364, et seq.
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