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Catalogue of old master violins; added to which is a short historical sketch of the various violin schools, and a list of the principal makers, including an article upon violin construction and repairing, also a list of choice music for the violin, 1900
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1Gaspar da Salo in Brescia
3Gasparo da Salo, Brescia, 1542-1620, is the first known maker of violins, though this distinction is claimed by German writers for a German at an earlier period and also by French writers for a Frenchman, yet at the present date, no violins earlier than those made by Gasparo da Salo are known to exist, and very few of his.
5Taking then Gasparo da Salo as the first maker of violins, we have in succeeding years Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Brescia, 1590-1640, a pupil of da Salo's.
7Contemporaneous with the Brescian makers were those of Cremona, where the violin industry reached such a degree of perfection, that it has excited the wonder of the civilized world to the present day.
9Andreas Amati, Cremona, 1530-1580, was the founder of the Cremonese School of Violin Makers; his sons, Antonius and Hieronymus, 1570-1635, succeeded their father in business, it then descending to Nikolaus Amati, 1596-1684, the son of Hieronymus. Nikolaus Amati was the greatest maker of this family, his work being hardly second to that genius of them all, Antonius Stradivarius, 1644-1737, who was his pupil and worked with him
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