Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . this chapter we willdevote a few words to the unique collectionof relics from Stradivaris workshop whichhave, thanks to the intelligent enthusiasmof Count Cozio di Salabue, fortunately beenpreserved to us. Of mechanical tools, withthe exception of the callipers shown in ourillustration, nothing of interest exists. Chisels,gouges, planes, knives, scrapers, cramps, andthe other necessary appliances of a violin-makers workshop, are all absent. In thecorrespondence that took place between the descendantsof Stradivari and the Count, the word tools
Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737) . this chapter we willdevote a few words to the unique collectionof relics from Stradivaris workshop whichhave, thanks to the intelligent enthusiasmof Count Cozio di Salabue, fortunately beenpreserved to us. Of mechanical tools, withthe exception of the callipers shown in ourillustration, nothing of interest exists. Chisels,gouges, planes, knives, scrapers, cramps, andthe other necessary appliances of a violin-makers workshop, are all absent. In thecorrespondence that took place between the descendantsof Stradivari and the Count, the word tools is repeatedlyused ; we must therefore assume that the Count had one or other of the violin-makers with whom hewas intimate, such as Joannes Baptista Guadagnini, or theBrothers Mantegazza, may have begged or borrowed obtained several of Stradivaris moulds, whichhe presented to the Museum of the Paris Conservatoire;and M. Chanot-Chardon possesses a set of small planessaid to have belonged to Stradivari. We believe these. Fig. 51. Design for a Tail-piece. INTERESTING RELICS 215
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