The Violin / Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators

by George Hart

PAGANINI'S GIUSEPPE GUARNERI. Date 1743. (IN THE MUNICIPAL PALACE, GENOA.)

THE VIOLIN

ITS FAMOUS MAKERS AND THEIR IMITATORS

BY

GEORGE HART

WITH

NUMEROUS WOOD ENGRAVINGS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WORKS
OF STRADIVARI, GUARNERI, AMATI, AND OTHERS, AND
ADDITIONS AND EMENDATIONS BY THE AUTHOR'S
SON AND TOWRY PIPER

"To perfect that wonder of travel—the locomotive—has perhaps not required the expenditure of more mental strength and application, than to perfect that wonder of music—the Violin." W. E. GLADSTONE.