Scan 119
Voice and violin: sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences by T.L. Phipson, 1898
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3A VIOLIN BY BERTOLINI
5With regard to violins, it is unfair to "narrow our minds to three or four makers," as Charles Reade expressed it. Let us frankly admit and honour merit where it really exists. Stradivari himself was not always absolutely the same; Nicolo Amati varies in quality, and so does every member of the Guarneri family.
7Sebastian Kloz (pronounced Klotz, the z of the Tyrol being articulated as in Italian) is, perhaps, the only maker who ever equalled, or even surpassed, the great Stradivarius; and whilst some of his violins have been sold for hundreds of pounds sterling, and occasionally as Stradivari instruments, other members of his family rarely fetch more than £10 to £20.
9The tone of the violins made during the first half of this century by Pressenda, Rocca, and Vuillaume has caused their prices to rise of late years by leaps and bounds; and in Great Britain the instruments of Maucotel, Chanot, and Withers, and other contemporary makers, are rising in esteem more and more.
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