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Scan 208
Voice and violin, 1898
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 188. See the scan on archive.org.
1written labels of these noted men have been carefully reproduced of late years; and these reproductions appear, as far as we can judge, to be very faithful representations of the originals. What awful scrawls some of them are! Many a schoolboy would have his ears boxed for an orthography twice as good or half as bad.
3So much for the labels of Stainer. Now let us, in a very few words, examine his model and other characteristics.
5I may state at once that his violins are far less numerous than those of Stradivari, who lived more than thirty years longer. A genuine Stainer is certainly one of the rarest curiosities in the world. Imitations by Dutch, English, and German makers we have in plenty; but the genuine article is rarely or ever seen.
7Among the violins which, during my long musical career, have on various occasions been presented to me by kind, enthusiastic, and far too indulgent friends, there was one Stainer.
9I was a young man at the time I received that gift, and knew very little of the celebrated makers of violins; and it must be confessed that a real Stainer is yet almost an unknown quantity—an x—to the greater number of violinists.
11Some people write his name "Steiner," which is evidently incorrect. But there was a time, not more than three-quarters of a century ago, when such
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