Scan 11

Violins, old & new, 1887

16 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1"GUARNERIUS violin, the STRADIVARIUS has had

2"no equal. As we understand him, the proposition

3"may be stated as follows: Let a man come forward

4"to-day who will make a violin equal to a STRADI-

5"VARIUS or a GUARNERIUS instrument, in all the

6"freshness and bloom of its youth, and the modern

7"violin will excel one by any other maker, however

8"remote the age in which he lived."

10We have such a maker in London, too, though he

11is comparatively unknown. His violins are not in

12the market, and if they were, being English are

13modern, the market would despise them. But, for

14all that, they are as good in every way as the notable

15violins of Cremona.

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