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Cremona: an account of the Italian violin-makers and their instruments, 1894
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1more clumsy. His instruments possess excellent qualities, and are valued almost as highly as those of Francesco.
3172. RUGGERI, Vincenzo. Cremona, 1695-1730.
4Vincenzo Ruger detto il Per
5In Cremona 16—
6Of similar character but inferior to the work of Francesco. (n)
8173. RUGGERI, Pietro Giacomo. Brescia, 1700-1720.
9Petrus Jacobus Ruggerius de Nicholay Amati Cremonensis
10fecit Brixiae 17—
11The pattern is narrower than that of the preceding maker, the scroll insignificant, the F holes similar to those of Francesco. The varnish is of very beautiful quality. The violoncello of Signor Piatti is by this master, of the year 1717. (o)
13174. RUGGERI, Guido. Cremona. But little known.
15175. SALO, Gaspard di.
16Gaspard di Salo in Brescia 16—
17also,
18Gasparo da Salo fecit Bresciae A°
19also,
20Casper Dasalo Fecit Bresciae A°
21Brescia, 1550-1612. His birthplace is the little town of Salo, on the lake of Garda. He made on the foundations laid by Gaspard Duiffopruggar, and varied but little from his model. The middle bouts are cut as flat, and the corners are less prominent, the F holes longer, running more parallel, and wider open, and the archings are rather higher. For the bellies he always used pine with a perfect regularity of grain. As the violin in his time was a new instrument then but little introduced, it is natural that basses, violoncellos, and viols of Gaspard di Salo are to be found in greater number than violins.
23It is worthy of note that he, as did later his successors
25(n) Vincenzo Rugieri made more violoncellos, apparently, than violins. The Beethoven viola is by Vincenzo Rugieri, but the date is doubtful.
27(o) This maker was the son of Giovanni Battista Rogeri (171). Another label is known, "Petrus Jacobus Rogeri fecit Brixiae 17—." The violoncello mentioned above, a very fine instrument, is now in the possession of an English amateur; it is the instrument which was once owned by Paganini, and bears his initials, N. P., carved by him.
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