Giuseppe Guarneri

Really? Huh.

And, um, it was him and then a bunch of other people whose violins are also very famous, like Guarneri, who had the most expensive one-

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... and then Amati.

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A Guarnerius, he explained, and a perfect pedigree specimen.

It has the most sensitive structure imaginable, and carries vibrations almost like a human nerve.

For instance, while I speak, he added, laying the violin upon his companion's hand, you will feel the vibrations of my voice run through the wood into your palm.

and um and i think probably what i uh what i got my takeaway from his his style of teaching was um i listened he played and i listened and i could hear what he was doing and he would explain what he was doing but i could hear it too and so that's what i do in my studio as well i you know um and also he also had a um He was in a very famous string quartet.

And he would sometimes, he had a Guarneri cello, and he also had a Stradivarius that was on loan to him from the Corcoran Art Gallery.

His quartet had, well, he was in the Cleveland Quartet.

This was Paul Katz.

He would sometimes have the Strat, sometimes have the Guarneri.

And so he would demonstrate on these incredible instruments.

I'm thinking, yeah, well, if I had that instrument, I could do this too.

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"A Guarnerius," he explained, "and a perfect pedigree specimen.

It has the most sensitive structure imaginable and carries vibrations almost like a human nerve.

For instance, while I speak," he added laying the violin upon his companion's hand, "you will feel the vibrations of my voice run through the wood into your palm." "I do," said Spinrobin.

He's been utilized in wide areas at times as well.

But a lot of people think that central is going to be where Guarneri really kind of makes his mark.

And he's going to get that opportunity, I think, with this Borussia Dortmund team to play in a number 10 role, to get substantial and meaningful minutes alongside a host of other young, really talented players.

And I think the Arsenal fans will be pleased that there's no option to buy in this.

My model in mind was Hill and Sons in London, which did appraisals, did expert repair, published books about violins so they could get education.

And they were handling Stradivari's and Guarneri's and Amati's and fine, fine instruments.

And a certificate from Hill was considered worth gold so far as certification of authenticity.

But I wanted to do that and give that degree of respectability.

Right.

If you're getting Stradivari or Guarneri violins, curl doesn't make any difference in the price.

But on guitars, it doesn't make much difference on a Martin D28 Herringbone, whether it has fancy grain rosewood.

But if it's a Les Paul, if it has curly maple, people pay extra.

Yeah, well, I think that...

At this point, it's getting unreasonably demanding to think that everything has to be perfect.

People are paying $15 million plus for Stradivari and Guarneri violins, and every one of them has been highly reworked.

They're all hot-rodded from their original specs, even to make them play to symphonic standards today and to be tunable to A440.

No, I sold my Stradivarius.

Now I have a Guarneri.

Ah, right.

I thought that might be the case.

A pupil of the Amati, he worked a long time with them and upon their models.

Towards 1700, he left them and from that time changed his proportions increased his form lowered the bellies and was as fastidious in the degrees of thickness of the wood as he was in the choice of the wood he employed contrary to the principles of the older italian masters his thickness increased towards the centre in order to give support to the bridge upon which the tension of the strings bears and diminished gradually towards the sides of the instrument all is calculated in the works of this excellent artist for the better production of tone to these advantages are superadded equality in all the strings grace of form finish of details and brilliancy of varnish in a large concert-room a good violin of giuseppe guarneri has more power of sonority but in a drawing-room nothing can possibly equal the brilliant mellowness of a well-preserved unfortunately many have fallen into the hands of unskilful workmen for repairs the family of the guaneri or guanerius has also become illustrious for the manufacture of bow instruments.

This family was also originally of Cremona and constantly resided there, with the exception of Pietro Guarneri, who settled at Mantua and still resided there in 1717.

The most celebrated of these makers is Giuseppe Guarneri, called in Italy Guarneria del Gesù from his violins bearing the mark IHS.

he was born at cremona at the close of the seventeenth century it is said that he learned his trade in the workshop of stragiari but he never attained his master's delicacy of finish on the contrary his work evinces very frequently great carelessness his sound holes nearly straight and angular are badly shaped his perfling badly traced in fact his instruments carry no masterly appearance and one is tempted to believe that the excellent quality of their tone arises more from the happy choice of material than from studied principles nevertheless on close inspection it is evident positive principles guided him in the construction of his instruments he has copied no maker who preceded him he had two patterns one small the other large the instruments of small pattern are the most numerous their bellies are slightly raised and their thickness rather exceeds that of the the large patterns which proceed from giuseppe guarneri are few in number and rarely met with it was upon one of these violins that paganini played at all his concerts the tone of these instruments is exceedingly brilliant and carries to a great distance but is less round and mellow than the instruments of straduari and pleases less near than at a certain distance after straduari and giuseppe guarnieri the art seems to have remained at its highest point of excellence and the italian makers appear not to have sought to improve contenting themselves with copying the one or the other of these masters lorenzo guadagnini a pupil of straduari copied the small pattern of his master the first and second string of his violins possess brilliancy and roundness America's

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The notes died away in a murmur.

A Guarnerius, he explained, and a perfect pedigree specimen.

It has the most sensitive structure imaginable, and carries vibrations almost like a human nerve.

For instance, while I speak, he added, laying the violin upon his companion's hand, you will feel the vibrations of my voice run through the wood into your palm.