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"What d'ye mean, sour milk, Mawruss?" Abe retorted. "The sour milk is all on your side, Mawruss, because I am telling you it was a genu-ine Amati." "All right, Abe," Morris said, as he rang for the elevator; "you told me that schon twenty times already. I wouldn't give you two dollars for all them genu-ine fellers' fiddles in creation; and that's all there is to it."
"So, this morning, in the paper," Abe continued, "Mawruss reads you are buying for three thousand dollars a fiddle and " "But, Abe," Felix interrupted, "it was a genuine Amati." "Sure, I know," Abe said; "but yesterday I myself am bringing you a genu-ine Amati and I didn't pay no such figure for it."
She might have broken it, for she seemed to feel very sorry about something. She was wiping her eyes with a bit of white, as women always did when they cried. It was not necessary for her to cry, on account of one broken violin, for he had thousands of them Stradivarius, Amati, Cremona; everything. Some of them were highly coloured and very rare on that account.
What I mean is that if Stradivarius, Guarnerius, Amati, Maggini and others of the old-master builders of violins had ever had wire strings in view, they would have built their fiddles in accordance, and they would not be the same we now possess. First of all there are scientific reasons against using the wire strings. They change the tone of the instrument.
"Well," he said, sighing, "I see innovations out there in Montana. The round-up will be different. The Pied Fiddler of Bar-K will stand in the corral and fiddle, and the bossies will come galloping in, two by two and a few jackrabbits!" He laughed. "John, the Amati is yours conditionally. If after one year it is not reclaimed it becomes yours automatically. My wedding present.
In exploring Paris for the purchase of a new violin, he accidentally made the acquaintance of an individual named Labout, who fancied that he had found the secret of the old Cremona varnish, and that, by using it on modern-made violins, the instruments would acquire all the tone and quality of the best old fiddles of the days of the Stradiuarii and Amati.
It was with the greatest difficulty that they were persuaded a few years ago, by the efforts of Italian and French musicians, to name one street Stradiuarius, and another Amati. Nicholas Amati, the greatest maker of his family, was the instructor of Antonius Stradiuarius, and during the early period of the latter artist the instruments could hardly be distinguished from those of Amati.
He gives away the very bread out of his mouth." Pinac and Fico shifted uncomfortably. "Everything he had of value has gone long ago. Do you remember that beautiful violin?" "Ah, yes! his Amati. Yes, yes! He bought instead a cheap one. I wondered why, but did not ask him." "And still he pays me. Where does he get it?" asked Miss Husted tearfully.
Yet all I know of the Amati is that they formed a dynasty, and doubtless fell in love on occasion, though how, or when, I do not learn. The great Antonio Stradivari, however, began his love-making like David Copperfield, by falling in love with a woman ten years his senior, when he was only seventeen.
It was strange, for she had been in a terrible rage the first day or two but she certainly was as pleased as Punch now. Joyselle had crossed the room and was sitting by Bicky now. By Jove, he was patting her hand! And before everybody! Suddenly he rose, she smiled up into his dark face, and he called Tommy. "Tommy, will you go to my room and bring me my Amati?"
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