Stradivari

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• In the 1690s, though, Stradivari embarked on a rapid series of experiments.

  Academic text (1994)

• The question remains: How did Stradivari and his contemporaries get that sound?

  Academic text (1994)

• Stradivari's instruments possess this quality of complexity, of personality, in the highest degree.

  Academic text (1994)

• The answer to the first part of that question—what Stradivari did as he made his instruments—is actually well known.

  Academic text (1994)

• Even the decorative scrolls, Sacconi argued, revealed Stradivari's deep, systematic knowledge of his craft.

  Academic text (1994)

• Bach's omnivorous musical interests extended to the labor of instrument design and construction that was Stradivari's lifework.

  Academic text (1994)

• Several great violinists, including Paganini and currently Isaac Stern, have preferred his instruments to Stradivari's.

  Academic text (1994)

• Several makers have tried to build Stradivari-like instruments by recreating back and belly tunings observed on various Stradivari violins.

  Academic text (1994)

• Antonio Stradivari is famous for creating some of the best violins in history.

• Many musicians dream of playing a cello made by Stradivari due to its unmatched quality.

Synonyms

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Antonio Stradivari

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An Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and made instruments with very good sound

is the alternative Latinized name form used in historical texts

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Antonius Stradivarius

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An Italian maker of violins famous for their very rich sound

is the modern personal name form rather than the Latinized historical form

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Etymology