Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 272
of it to their sons, who, in turn, alteredand shaped and invented, seeking perfection. About a hundred years after Gasparo di Salo had i879-] ABOUT VIOLINS. 251 sent his violin into the world, a young man namedAntonius Stradivarius was among the pupils at theAmati school. He was a slow, silent… … FIG. I.—THE REBEK. clung to the old patterns, copying them in everydetail, both faults and merits, and often signingthem with the name of his master, Nicholas Amati.But one day he seems to have waked suddenly toclearer sight, and he said to himself: Theres more music in wood and strings…
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