A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
Paganini performs indiscriminately on all violins; although he uses habitually a Guarnerius; but what will appear singular, is, that he strings it with thinner strings than is usual. At one of the concerts which he gave in Germany, envy had induced somebody to substitute a bad violin for the one on which he ought to have played, hoping thus perhaps to have robbed Paganini of some of his advantages; but he was not less brilliant than usual, and it was not even suspected that his instrument had been changed. It is a common occurrence for the strings of a violin to break ; Paganini is notin the least disturbed by this circumstance. If a string snaps he continues playing without any transposition every note that was written for the four strings. When from any cause his instrument gets out of tune he has a method of concealing the defect. Sometimes he screws up the G string without interrupting the performance, and with such dexterity that it is impossible to perceive it. He does not avow this expedient himself, we heard it from an artist long admitted into his intimacy. The advantages that Paganini derives from this innocent fraud, is that of raising the G string to notes which are commonly beyond its reach. He thus adds to the fourth string, notes which legitimately belong to the second orR
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