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A treatise on the structure and preservation of the violin and all other bow-instruments; together with an account of the most celebrated makers, and of the genuine characteristics of their instruments;, 1860
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1been formed by the immediate pupils of Ant. Stradivari. They may be ranged in the following chronological order:—
3Pietro della Costa, of Trevisa…………. 1660 to 1680
4Michael Angelo Garani, of Bologna…… 1685 to 1715
5David Techler, of Rome………………… 1690 to 1735
6Carlo Guiseppe Testore, of Milan……… 1690 to 1700
7Carlo Antonio Testore, of Milan………. 1700 to 1730
8Paolo Antonio Testore, of Milan………. 1710 to 1745
9Nicolo Galiano, of Naples……………… 1700 to 1740
10Gennaro Galiano, of Naples……………. 1710 to 1750
11Spiritus Sursano, of Coni (Cuneo)…….. 1714 to 1720
12Tomaso Balestiere, of Mantua………….. 1720 to 1750
13Ferdinando Galiano, son of Nicolo, of Naples……………………………………… 1740 to 1780
14Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, of Piacenza 1755 to 1785
15Carlo Landolfi, of Milan……………….. 1750 to 1760
16Alessandro Zanti, of Mantua……………. 1770
17Laurentius Sturionus (Storioni), of Cremona……………………………………… 1780 to 1795
19Some violin makers, born in foreign countries, have been formed in Italy in the school of Amati, or in that of Ant. Stradivari. At the head of these must be placed Jacob Stainer, the founder of the Tyrolese school, who worked during his youth at Cremona, under Nicholas Amati. The genuine instruments of this maker have been classed into three epochs. To the first belong the violins dated from Cremona, all of which have written labels, signed with the hand of Stainer: these are of the
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