id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 37309 Pearce, Joseph Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. .txt text/plain 25703 1693 72 fine tone of a good violin will not now tolerate a bad piano-forte. flat Stradiuarius Model, made of good wood, with amber varnish, and all the better class of instruments is excellent, the tone good of all; now given to the Italian instruments over all the old English makers. pupils of Stradiuarius and made some good instruments of his pattern. best instruments of Nicholas Amati, Antonius Stradiuarius, and Joseph These makers produced some very good but not handsome instruments. a pupil of Steiner, and the first violin maker of this well known name. All his instruments are of a good Italian quality of tone, and are absence of the three great makers, Nicholas Amati, Antonio Stradiuarius the greatest maker of his time, and connoisseurs value his instruments repairing old instruments, he says, "There is no violin maker now, who artiste is not famous for producing a great tone in his instruments, ./cache/37309.txt ./txt/37309.txt