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Updated: June 22, 2025
The station room was an agreeable one, painted prettily in frescoes, with two sofas. So we arranged ourselves in a party. S. and I betook ourselves to our embroidery, and C. read aloud to us, or tried the Amati, and when we were tired of reading and music we strolled in the garden, and I wrote to you.
Helene Karanyi, widow of the celebrated violinist, Bela Karanyi, has sold her husband's favourite Amati at a price said to be over three thousand dollars. The purchaser is Felix Geigermann, who said yesterday that the violin had been in his possession for some time, and that there was no doubt of its authenticity.
None but a genuine AMATI, a hundred years old, can possess this mysterious quality, that can breathe almost inaudible, like a mornbeam in the parlor, or predominate imperious and intense over orchestra and choir, illuminating with its fire, like chain lightning, the arches of a vast cathedral. Enchanted thing what nameless spirit impregnates with magnetic ether the fine fibres of thy mechanism!
Can it be possible that there is any sane person who holds that there is no such thing as expression in music so long as the written notes are correctly rendered that the musical expression of a Paganini or a Liszt, or that the voice of a Malibran or a Grisi, has no special charm nay more, that there is not some special excellence in the instruments of Amati or Stradivarius?
First he squinted into the right "eff" hole and he grunted in approval as he spied the label, which read as follows: NICOLAUS AMATI CREMONENSIS Faciebat Anno 1670 "Do you know anything about them old violins?" Aaron asked anxiously. Abe smiled in a superior way.
They included some old music; some compositions which he would now try to sell; a genuine Amati violin worth at least three thousand dollars; a grand piano; one or two paintings; some silverware, presents, and jewelry; and about eight hundred dollars in cash.
When nine-year-old Felix came to the Carmody manse, he had mastered as much of the science of the violin as nine out of ten musicians acquire in a lifetime; and he brought with him his father's violin; it was all Martin Moore had to leave his son but it was an Amati, the commercial value of which nobody in Carmody suspected. Mr. Leonard had taken possession of it and Felix had never seen it since.
He wanted that second order badly, and if cordiality could accelerate its shipment he was willing to try it with Abe. "Ah, mon ami," he cried. "Come inside my office. What good wind blows you here?" Abe scowled. All this enthusiasm betokened but one thing the violin was a genuine Amati, after all. He sat down slowly and bit the end off a large cigar.
His descendants dwelt for generations, flourishing on his fame, at Cremona. The Amati were also a numerous family of luthiers, as were the Guarnieri, but I have not been able to poke into their private affairs, though he who called himself "Jesus," was addicted to imprisonment, and is said to have made violins out of bits of wood brought him by the jailer's daughter.
They were so exactly alike. "If Bruder Meyer has not put his Amati to bed, I will accompany him," said the musician suggestively, looking across at a man whom Harris had not yet noticed, and who, he now saw, was the very image of a former master of that name.
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