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Cremona: an account of the Italian violin-makers and their instruments, 1894
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1lived at the commencement of the eighteenth century, and had in their time a considerable reputation.
3147. OBIZI, Bartolomeo. Verona, 1750. He worked after the style of Maggini, but on a somewhat narrower model. (a)
5148. OBUE, Bartolomeo. Verona, 1755. But little known.
7149. ODOARDI, Giuseppe. A peasant. He made, as an amateur, several excellent violins. He died at the age of twenty-eight years. (b)
9150. PALMA, Paulus. Lucca, 1760. A small model, similar pattern to that of Nicolas Amati.
11151. PANORMO, Vincenzo. He was born in Palermo in 1740, and died there in 1813. He was one of the best of the imitators of Stradivari. He lived for a short time in Paris, where some of his instruments are dated, and went afterwards to England and Ireland. In Dublin he found an old billiard-table of maple, which he used for his backs. He was not choice about his materials, but among his many instruments of decided mediocrity there are some of a high order. The F holes are very beautifully cut, but the scroll is of varying character. He made violins and contra-basses. (c)
13152. PANSANI, Antonio. Rome, 1780-1785. He is seldom met with. (d)
15(a) Or Obici. His label is, "Bartolamio Obici in Verona 1684."
16(b) He worked at Ascoli in 1673.
17(c) He is said to have been born at Monreale, near Palermo, on the 30th November, 1734. His labels are, "Vincenzo Panormo me fece Marsiglia, 1760, Sicily," and "Vincenzo Panormo, Londra, 1791"; and his Paris labels are, "Vincent Panormo, rue de l'Arbre Sec, Paris, 17—," and "Vincenzo Triusano Panormo, fecit Parisiis, Anno 17—." There is much uncertainty about the dates, and it is suggested that one of his sons was working in London during the latter part of his father's residence in Paris. He left several sons, Joseph (whose son, Edward Ferdinand, the guitar-maker, died at Brighton on November 3rd, 1891), Georges Louis, the bow-maker, and Edouard Vincenzo. Panormo is considered by De Piccolellis to have perhaps been a pupil of Bergonzi.
18(d) He is said to have worked also at Venice; the name also appears as Panzani.
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