SILENT VIOLINS
Luigi Tarisio was found dead one morning with scarce a comfort in his home, but with 246 exquisite violins, which he had been collecting all his life, crammed into an attic. In his devotion to the violin, he robbed the world of much wonderful music all the time he treasured his instruments such that he kept them safe in his attic. He had collected some violins that others before him had “kept safe” in storage as he did. Therefore, the greatest violin in his collection, a Stradivarius, had remained silent for 147 years. Can you imagine? Instruments designed for beautiful music had purposefully been kept silent. From C. Neil Strait in Sunshine Magazine, August, 1973
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