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Show StradiTsrliu.' We are always glad to pick up any Items relating to the eminent Stradiva-rius Stradiva-rius and his fiddles. There is a dispute pending in the court of sessions, Edinburgh, Edin-burgh, upon the merits 'of which we would not breathe a syllable, even though we bad an opinion to breathe; but, in the course of a prolonged inquiry, some interesting in-teresting details have come out. The plaintiff is a wholesale fish salesman. Music has always been associated with the sea and often with fish. The story of Amphion recurs to every mind. The plaintiff bought a "Stradivarius" seven years ago, which he now repudiates upon tho ground that several inches of the run are not genuine. In support of his grievance various experts ex-perts have been called, who enlightened the Edinburgh jury upon things in general gen-eral connected with Stradivarius. They have learned in particular that he was an "eccentric genius" who never made fiddles fid-dles "one after another all alike" this information, we should think, must have been rather embarrassing than sustaining sustain-ing to the good men in their responsible position. As for the particular instrument instru-ment in question, its belly was made by Stradivarius, and the varnish on the back was imparted by the same immortal hand. About the other parts or limbs we are not informed, excepting "the left side top," which emphatically "was not that of Strad." Another expert denounced de-nounced the liberties so often taken with this grand name. It must be a very poor specimen and badly "doctored ' that pells for less than 400. Tho population of Edinburgh have already picked up a great deal of miscellaneous information about fiddles in the course of the trial. London Standard. |