item: #1 of 7
          id: 21982
      author: Hart, George
       title: The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
        date: None
       words: 129006
      flesch: 69
     summary: In 1765 he was appointed instrument maker to the court of Frederick the Great. Made instruments of a wide pattern, often with ivory edges, and branded inside with his initials.
    keywords: amati; andrea; antonio; art; attention; bass; bergonzi; bow; carlo; case; century; character; charles; chief; collection; count; cremona; cremonese; date; day; double; duke; england; english; evidence; excellent; family; father; fecit; fiddle; following; footnote; form; francesco; french; gasparo; german; giovanni; giuseppe; good; guarneri; having; henry; history; hole; information; instruments; italian; italy; jacob; johann; john; joseph; kind; left; life; little; london; maker; making; manufacture; master; material; model; music; niccolo; number; order; paolo; paris; pattern; period; place; playing; point; present; pupil; quality; salo; school; scroll; set; son; sound; stainer; stradivari; strings; style; subject; thomas; time; tone; value; varnish; violin; violinist; violoncellos; viols; william; wood; work; workmanship; year
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: 26878
      author: Petherick, Horace
       title: The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.
        date: None
       words: 68828
      flesch: 64
     summary: This is more frequent than would be suspected, and is sometimes a secret source of damage or bad influence leading to disaster in other parts of the instrument. It will be evident, then, that care must be taken that a flat or large curve should be treated with more or less pressure than other parts.
    keywords: away; chief; course; cut; diagram; end; fingerboard; fitting; glue; good; great; hand; instrument; james; kind; knife; left; line; neck; new; paper; parts; peg; piece; position; present; pressure; process; repairer; right; round; surface; table; time; upper; violin; wood; work
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: 28221
      author: Raymond, Evelyn
       title: Dorothy's Triumph
        date: None
       words: 51274
      flesch: 84
     summary: You are _my_ dearest chum, Dorothy Calvert! cried Aunt Betty, who entered the room at this moment. Oh, you don't know how nice it is to ride fast, Aunt Betty, said Dorothy; to feel the wind fairly blowing the hair off your head; the landscape flashing past so rapidly one can scarcely see it, and to know that-- Stop, Dorothy Calvert!
    keywords: aunt betty; aurora; baltimore; bellvieu; big; boy; calvert; camp; car; dat; day; dear; deichenberg; dorothy; ephraim; gerald; girl; going; good; hand; herr; home; iss; jim; judge; len; miss; molly; morning; mrs; music; night; party; room; stage; time; und; way; young
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: 28252
      author: Mayson, Walter H. (Walter Henry)
       title: Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX.
        date: None
       words: 30478
      flesch: 70
     summary: But if they do not appear as I intimate, then you must operate until this very important part of your work be strictly that of a perfect whole; for, remember, as a whole the two parts must remain for as long as the violin holds together, which may be for two hundred years over and above the years that shall be given to you who make it; and this alone should be an incentive to good work. No one, I venture to reply; but to my mind, and from experience, it _is_ such, the softer part, where run the cells, being firm, full, and mellow to the thumb nail on pressure (showing, I think, good sap lies dried there), which I have found before in such wood, proved to be grand beyond doubt by its superb tone in a violin.
    keywords: belly; book; centre; chapter; cut; end; fine; glue; good; half; illustration; inch; instrument; neck; piece; plate; point; ribs; round; strad; surface; tone; use; violin; wood; work
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: 32556
      author: Raymond, Evelyn
       title: Dorothy's Tour
        date: None
       words: 49105
      flesch: 88
     summary: This, remarked Mr. Ludlow, turning to Dorothy, is Miss Dorothy Calvert, and Dorothy, this is my ward, Miss Ruth Boothington. This is Miss Dorothy Calvert, of whom you have often heard me speak, and her friend, Miss Babcock.
    keywords: alfaretta; alfy; aunt; aunt betty; calvert; dauntrey; day; dear; dorothy; dress; girl; good; home; hotel; house; jim; little; ludlow; miss; mrs; new; people; play; right; room; ruth; tell; things; thought; time; want; washington; way; york
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: 36147
      author: Gemünder, George
       title: George Gemünder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General
        date: None
       words: 20128
      flesch: 59
     summary: During the performance of a quartet on the violins made by Gemünder, this amateur, who was possessed of the popular prejudice against new instruments, and who fancied he heard the Italian violin, was so exceedingly delighted with it that he observed, To hear such violins is sufficient to keep any one from ever touching new ones. Thus, violins of chemically prepared wood will never do for concerts, and it is a great mistake to believe that such violins have ever produced as good a tone as good Italian violins do.
    keywords: america; art; gemünder; george; good; instruments; knowledge; making; new; regard; time; tone; violin; violin makers; vuillaume; wood
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: 37309
      author: Pearce, Joseph
       title: 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.
        date: None
       words: 25703
      flesch: 70
     summary: Made good instruments after the Stradiuarius model, some of which followed his style so carefully as to have been taken for those of that master. FICHTOLD, HANS, 1612, is said to have made good instruments.
    keywords: amati; artiste; century; cremona; family; gaspar; guarnerius; instruments; joseph; london; maker; master; model; nicholas; pattern; present; pupil; quality; son; steiner; stradiuarius; time; tone; varnish; violin; wood
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