Scan 68
Cremona: an account of the Italian violin-makers and their instruments, 1894
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1time, there was another Jacobs at Amsterdam, probably his son, who used a deep-red transparent varnish. (j)
3114. JOANNES, Andreas. Verona, 1511. He made viols and basses.
5115. JULIANO, Francisco. Rome, 1701. (k)
7116. KERLINO, Giovanni. Brescia, 1449. As the initial letter of his name does not exist in the Italian language, it may be supposed that Kerlino was probably a German, or of German extraction. There was a violin in the possession of Koliker, of Paris, with the inscription, "Joan Kerlino ann: 1449." Vuillaume considered this to be a converted viola, but Kerlino acquires the credit of being a violin-maker from it. (l)
9117. KLOTZ, Egidius. Mittenwald, 1660-1675. He went as a boy to Absom to learn under Stainer, and afterwards returned to Mittenwald. He worked there exactly after the Stainer pattern, and most of his violins pass for genuine Stainers. His varnish is redder, and is extremely good, if not so clear as that of his master.
11118. KLOTZ, Matthias. Mittenwald, 1660-1720. Son of the last. He went, having worked for a long time with his father, to Cremona and Florence. He subsequently returned to Mittenwald, and founded the industry which flourishes there to this day.
13The Venetian dealers, who had been insulted and injured by Duke Sigismund, came to the conclusion to visit no longer the fair of Botzen, and selected the market of Mittenwald,
15(j) This is probably meant for Pecter Jacobs, who followed the Amati model. He is sometimes ranked as a French maker, but there seems to be no special ground for such assertion.
17(k) This maker worked from about 1690 to 1710. He has been said to be identical with one Giuliani, of rather earlier date, but this is doubtful.
19(l) This is the instrument mentioned by Laborde, who saw it in 1799; it was in Koliker's possession in 1804, when it was seen by Fétis. To Kerlino is attributed the viola, said to be of 1452, an excellent instrument of much power, which was exhibited by Mr. Georges Chanot in the South Kensington Exhibition of 1872, and which has been finely copied by him. Mr. Charles Reade asserted that this instrument was a converted six or seven-stringed viol, made by Ventura Linarolli, of Venice, about 1520.
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