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GUEST,Truman Price	On a violin: 'In silvis viva silui' (24)	RE: On a violin: 'In silvis viva silui'	06 Nov 16
My fiddle also has the same motto inlaid on the back (in very fine workmanship): IN SILVIS VIVA SILUI CANORA JAM MORTUA CANO The professor I took it to, decades ago, said that is 16th century church Latin and translated thus: "In the wood ('same word for forest or lumber') I lived, silent. "Canora doesn't translate. "Now that I am ['present perfect participle'] dead , I sing." If Canora doesn't translate, and cano means I sing, then I consider Canora to be the name given to the fiddle, something like Songstress. My fiddle is, incidentally, a Guarnerius, identical in shape to photos of Ole Bull's Guarneri, but with a single-piece front with the fine grain on the extreme right.

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