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Chats on violins, 1905
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1Other Italian Makers 103
3resemblance to the Stradivarius model. His wood is most handsome, the varnish very transparent and brilliant in colour. Count Cozio di Salabue, in a letter to Vincenzo Lancetti in 1823, says: "The instruments of G. B. Guadagnini were highly esteemed by connoisseurs and professional men in Holland and Germany."
5Representatives of the Guadagnini family still exist and make fiddles in Turin at the present day.
7GUARNERIUS, Andrea, 1630-1695. A pupil of Nicolo Amati, who worked side by side with Antonio Stradivari. He afterwards taught the art of violin-making to his son Joseph, who carried on his father's business after his death, and is considered to have been the master of his cousin, the famous Joseph Guarnerius del Gesù.
9Andrea made good fiddles, but he never attained the finish of Amati. His son Joseph was the most talented of the two, and showed more originality in his models. He seems to have been influenced by the work of the great Brescian master, Gasparo di Salo, and most particularly shows it in his pointed ff holes, which are quite a revival of the Brescian
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