the Collector--The Ettrick Shepherd and the
Violin--The Fiddle Trade: "Old Borax" and "Michael Schnapps," the
Fiddle-ogre--The Prince and the "Fugal Vortex"--Sale of Cremonese
Instruments at Milan in 1790--An Indefatigable Violinist--A
Wish--Living Stradivaris--Pleasures of Imagination--A Royal
Amateur--Pius IX. and the Musician--Ole Bull and Fiddle
Varnish--Letter from Tartini on the Treatment of the Violin . 410-507
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FRONTISPIECE--Paganini's "Giuseppe Guarneri." 1743.
PLATE FACING PAGE
I. Stradivari Viola. 1672 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
II. Jacobus Stainer. 1669
Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu
Niccolo Amati. Grand Pattern. 1641 . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
III. Violoncello by Antonio Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
IV. Antonio Stradivari. 1734
The Gillott "Strad." 1715
Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1734 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
V. Carlo Bergonzi Violoncello. Grand Pattern . . . . . . . . . 84
VI. J. B. Guadagnini
Storioni. 1797 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
VII. Specimens of Scrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
VIII. Giuseppe Guarneri. 1742
Antonio Stradivari. 1711
Antonio Stradivari. 1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
IX. Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1737 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
X. Domenico Montagnana Violoncello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
XI. Antonio Stradivari. Tenor. 1690
Antonio Stradivari. 1734 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
XII. Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1738
The "Dolphin" Strad. 1714
Antonio Stradivari. 1718 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
XIII. Antonio Stradivari. 1702
Antonio Stradivari. 1722
Antonio Stradivari. 1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
XIV. Stradivari Violoncello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
XV. Chapel of the Rosary, Cremona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
XVI. Antonio Stradivari. 1708
Antonio Stradivari. 1736
Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. 1735 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
XVII. The "Betts" Stradivari. 1704 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
XVIII. Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu
Antonio Stradivari (Inlaid). 1687 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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