Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Catalog of Rare Old Violins: Violas and Violoncellos, Also Bows of Rare Makes
IN this, the Twenty-sixth Edition of our Catalog of Rare Old Violins, Violas, Cellos, Bows, etc., we offer a noteworthy collection of instruments by the great violin makers of the 17th, 18th and lgth Centuries.
Our Violin Department was inaugurated in 1888, and it was the am bitiou of the late P. J. Healy (founder of the house), that it should be a leading factor in the musical development of America by supplying violins of highest quality, so that every violin offered in this department should be the best possible value in its class, musically and commercially.
The violin occupies a unique position in the musical life of the country.
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