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Show WERE NOT TO BE CONVINCED Violin Maker's Work 8o Good the Critics Would Not Accept It as His Own. While it is no easy matter for a violin maker to rival the famous Stradlvarlus instruments, an American Ameri-can maker once did this, and did it In so effectual a manner that experts pronounced his violin a genuine Stradlvarlus. The successful man was George Gemunder, who died some ten years ago. His remarkable ability abil-ity as a maker of violins was known to many a distinguished player, such as Ole Bull, Remenyi and Wilhelmj, but he achclved so runs the story his greatest success at the last Paris exposition. To that exhibition he sent an imitation Stradlvarlus, and, to test Its merits, had it placed on exhibition as the genuine article. A committee of experts carefully examined ex-amined the instrument and pronounced it a Stradlvarlus. So far Gemunder's trumph was complete, but now came a difficulty. When he claimed that it was not an old violin but a new one made by ' himself, the committee would not beiieve him. They declared that he had never made the Instrument Instru-ment and pronounced him an impostor. impos-tor. He had done his work too well. |