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Show PINDS OIil) VIOLlXv'lS f G I5.V U I N ID STK A I I V A IIM'S (Uy International News Service.) j CODY, Wyo., April 17. Music connoisseurs con-noisseurs throughout the country will lc thrilled at the reported discovery hero of a KMiUinc Sf radivariua. Tho instrument is owned by K. A. McNeil of Cody, and its accidental I discovery w:is made when McXell un-l dortoolc to repair an old - fiddle" Unit hud been in li is possession over a I seore of years. The fiddle was jresented to McXcll by George Blue, now deceased, who j declared at thn lime that tho fiddle had been in the Blue family for many generations. When McXcll started to tinker with I the fiddle recently, he found tucked Inside In-side tho old instrument a roll of rabbit rab-bit skin, which crumped in his handi. Inside the roll was a parchment bear-,1 inpr the copy of a will, dated August G.i 170G. at Philadelphia, bequeathing the instrument to Georgre Blue, Rreat-I srandfather of the donor of the fid-i die. The will is signed by "Sam Blue. I of Jamestown Colony," as the benc-l factor, with the, signatures of two witnesses. It states that the instru-1 ment "was made by my dear friend Antonio Stradivari." and requests that it be retained in the Blue family "to be handed down from generation to generation." The violin measures fwontv-three Indies in length. Although somewhat I battered. Jt is not seriously damaged Tho famous Cremoncse artist Is said H to have done his best work In manu- H facturing violins In tho period between H 1700 and 1725. H oo IH |