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Show WERE NOT TO BE CONVINCED H.olln MakeVe Work S Qocd th Crltlca Would Not Accept It ss Kt Own. While it i no cftsy mntter tor a olin malier to rival tho famous jkrudivariut Instruments, an American Ameri-can maker ones did this, and did tt trs so effectual a mannr that experts pronounced bis -violin a genuine Stradlvarlus. The ucccsful man wta George Gemunder, who died some tn years ago. His remarkable ability abil-ity as' a matter of violins was known to many a distinguished player, such as Ole Bull, Remenyl and WllhehnJ, but be 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 tnimph was complete, but now came b difficulty. When he claimed that It was not' an old violin but a new one made by himself, the committee would not believe him. They declared .tJiat he had never made the instru-r instru-r fiit and pronounced him an impostor, impos-tor, lie had done his work too well. |