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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, 1875
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1There was another Albani, who worked in Sicily, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Nothing is known of his life, nor is his Christian name given in the violin quoted by Fétis.
3Matthias Klotz, a Tyrolean maker, was the best pupil of Stainer. He worked from 1670 to 1696. Other instruments of later date, bearing the same name, are believed to have been made by his sons; who did not set their own names to the violins and tenors which they made until the death of their father. The names of his sons were George, Sebastian, and Egitia.
5Among the foreigners to Italy who worked under Ant. Stradivari, we remark—
7Medard, who made violins, first at Paris and afterwards at Nancy, from 1680 to 1720.
9Ambrose Decombre, of Tournay, who, in returning to his country, worked from 1700 to 1735, and whose basses are much esteemed.
11Francis Lupot, of Stutgard, who worked there from 1725 to 1750. He was the father of him of the same name who established himself in Paris in the second half of the eighteenth century.*
13John Vuillaume, of Mirecourt, who made good instruments from 1700 to 1740.
15We now come to mention the family of Guarneri or Guarnerius, which furnished several distinguished makers of violins. The head of the family was:—
17Andrew Guarnerius, born at Cremona in the first part of
19* And to whom the Abbé Sibire was indebted for the greater portion of his work, entitled La Chélonomie, ou le parfait Luthier Paris, 1806.—T'r.
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