Scan 67
Cremona: an account of the Italian violin-makers and their instruments, 1894
15 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 45. See the scan on archive.org.
1108. GUIDANTUS, Joannes Florens. Bologna, 1740-1760. A small, high-arched model, long F holes, and badly inlaid purflings. The outlines possess but little elegance, especially in the middle bouts. (i)
3109. GUIDOMINI, Lorenz. Milan, 1740. But little known.
5110. GULETTO, Nicolas. Cremona, 1790. He made strongly constructed, good instruments, after the model of Stradivari.
7111. GUSETTO, Nicola. Cremona, 1730. His instruments have this peculiarity, that the outlines are not designed on the smoothly-rounded lines generally used, but in undulating fashion; and the scroll and F holes the same. The arching is moderately high, the varnish yellow, and the tone powerful.
9112. HORIL, Giacomo.
11113. JACOBS, Henry. Cremona and Amsterdam, 1690-1740. He was a step-brother of the last Hieronymus Amati; and had to make his escape on account of a love-affair with a nun, and went to Amsterdam. He copied the instruments of Nicolas Amati very skilfully, so that his instruments would generally pass for genuine Amatis, did not the eye of the connoisseur detect the distinction by the inferior varnish and the ugly scroll. He used whalebone for the purflings, and, although some German violin-makers occasionally did this also, nearly every violin which is purfled with whalebone is called a Henry Jacobs. After his
13(i) There is some confusion here, which has frequently occurred elsewhere, between this name and that of Florenus, see ante. This label and description appear to belong really to the joint work of the two makers, Giovanni and Guidante, father and son, who bore the name of Floreno, though Hart quotes a label from a viola d’amore, “Joanne Guidantus, fecit Bononiae, anno 1715,” which was in the Exhibition at Milan in 1881. There are some violins passing under the name of Guidantus with a fine yellow oil varnish of rather thin quality. one of two readings
14(i) There is some confusion here, which has frequently occurred elsewhere, between this name and that of Florenus, see ante. This label and description appear to belong really to the joint work of the two makers, Giovanni and Guidante, father and son, who bore the name of Floreno, though Hart quotes a label from a viola d'amore, "Joanne Guidantus, fecit Bononiae, anno 1715," which was in the Exhibition at Milan in 1881. There are some violins passing under the name of Guidantus with a fine yellow oil varnish of rather thin quality. one of two readings
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