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Guadagnini, Guisseppe

Also recorded as: Guadagnini, Guiseppe

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  1. The fiddle fancier's guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers of these instruments (1892)

    GUADAGNINI, GUISSEPPE. Son of the preceeding. Was a violin maker in Milan, Como, and Parma, and employed his father’s tickets. His instruments have a fairly good tone.

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    1. GUADAGNINI, GUISSEPPE. Son of the preceeding. Was a violin maker in Milan, Como, and Parma, and employed his father's tickets. His instruments have a fairly good tone.
    3. GUADAGNINI. There were a number of this name, subsequent to above, and settled in Turin. Almost all the Guadagnini violins have good tone.

  2. The Violinist's Guide: Written for the Use of the Violin Buying Public (1916)

    Guadagnini, Guiseppe, 18th century. Parma, Turin and Pavia. Work resembles father’s. Tone invariably strong, robust and mellow.

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    2. Guadagnini, Giovanni Battista. Cremona, 1711-1786. Son. Finest instruments made in Piacenza and Parma. Extensively copied by Italians, French and English.
    4. Guadagnini, Guiseppe, 18th century. Parma, Turin and Pavia. Work resembles father's. Tone invariably strong, robust and mellow.
    6. Guarnerius, Andrea. Cremona, 1625-1693. Pupil of N. Amati; founder of great family makers. Individual work second class. Some violins excellent tone.

Named in 2 books printed between 1892 and 1916. Read by software from scans of those pages, not yet checked by a person against the page. Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and the software judged them likely the same person. Tell us if that is wrong and we will split the record.

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GUADAGNINI, GUISSEPPE. Son of the preceeding. Was a violin maker in Milan, Como, and Parma, and employed his father’s tickets. His instruments have a fairly good tone. reported1
Places and dates of work
Guadagnini, Guiseppe, 18th century. Parma, Turin and Pavia. Work resembles father’s. Tone invariably strong, robust and mellow. reported view the page image1

How the pages were read

2 of the 2 lines here were read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words), not by a person looking at the page image. Trade terms matched from the printed page: “violin maker”. 1 of them rests on a section heading above a list of names, not on a trade word printed on its own line: “Old Italian Violin Makers”.

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  1. Fleming, James M., b. 1839, The fiddle fancier’s guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers of these instruments (London: Haynes, Foucher & Co., 1892). archive.org, fiddlefanciersgu00flemiala. https://archive.org/details/fiddlefanciersgu00flemiala.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  2. The Violinist’s Guide: Written for the Use of the Violin Buying Public (Chicago: The Violinist Publishing Company, 1916), pp. 19–43. Google Books, zXQHAQAAMAAJ. https://books.google.com/books?id=zXQHAQAAMAAJ.Primaryread from the pagecited for 1 linesource record

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