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Bea
Dec 05, 2010 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I really did enjoy this book. First, the author is a violinist and therefore was familiar with his subject - Antonietta, the violin made by Stadivarius. He included history and provenance as part of the story. He used five acts - each set in a different time - to trace the journey of this one violin. The Intermezzos were the tying thread that resolved all the issues of each act so that you began the next act with a sense of completion. Usually the tying thread was the summation of what had happe ...more