Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 274
pre-cious to their owners, and are worth many timestheir weight in gold. Men who fashion violinsnow strive in vain to imitate the perfect curves andproportions of the old models, their ethereal, ring-ing voices, and the lovely hues of the varnishes,just as modern painters study the secrets of… … AS GOOD AS NEW. himself to the devil for his marvelous execution, islocked up in Genoa: its strings never struck.Others belong to the nobility; for in the palmydays of violin manufacture a Cremona fiddle wasconsidered a royal gift. But wherever these instruments may be, they arewell known to…
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