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Voice and violin, 1898
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 186. See the scan on archive.org.
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3THE VIOLIN-MAKER TO THE EMPEROR
5AFTER the great Stradivari, no violin-maker has been more imitated than Stainer, though Amati and Guarneri have had their share of copyists. But so popular have become, during the present century, the names of Stainer and Kloz, that no one will accuse me of exaggeration when I assert that their labels have been placed in many thousands of violins which they never made.
7Jacobus Stainer was born at Absom, near Insprück, in the Tyrol, about the year 1620, and lived to the age of sixty-three. Whilst still a mere boy he went to Cremona, and found employment in the workshop of Nicolo Amati (the greatest of the makers of that name), of whom he was destined to become a noted rival, not only in his native land, but throughout the whole world; and his name at the present time is as familiar to violinists of every country as is that of the great Amati himself.
9Stainer must, by all accounts, have been a handsome man, of engaging manners, but bold and head-
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