Scan 94
Cremona: an account of the Italian violin-makers and their instruments, 1894
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1Some violins by him, after the model of Nicolas Amati, are known.
3205. TORTOBELLO. Rome, 1680. A follower of Maggini.
5206. TRUNCO. Cremona, 1660. But seldom found.
7207. VETTRINI. Brescia, 16—. He used a handsome flat model, and good wood, with a golden varnish. (n)
9208. VIMERCATI, Pietro. Venice, 1640-1660. Similar to the Brescian makers. Jacobus Stainer worked under him.
11209. VIMERCATI, Paolo. Venice, 1710. Son of the last, he made small instruments after the style of the elder Amatis. Good yellow varnish. (o)
13210. VINACCIA, Antonio. Naples, 1765. Of no importance. (p)
15211. ZANETTO, Peregrino. Brescia, 1530-1540.
17Peregrino Zanetto
18Brescia 15—
20He made viols principally, but some violins and violoncellos also, which are excellent, and are valued as solo instruments. (q) Eichhorn, the Carlsruhe player, possessed a violoncello of extraordinarily large and noble tone, for which high sums were offered him; and a violin by Zanetto in the Niederheitmann Collection has a similar tone of much excellence. The model is rather large and highly arched, the varnish a dark brownish-yellow. The F holes are long and after the style of Joseph Guarnerius.
22(n) His name was Battista Vetterini, or Vetrini: he lived about 1629.
24(o) There was also a Gaspare Vimercati about 1700, of Milan, a noted maker of lutes and mandolins.
26(p) For other members of the Vinaccia family, see Appendix. Antonio Vinaccia was a maker of lutes, for the most part.
28(q) His name also runs Pelignino, or Pelegrino, Zanetto. He is certainly known as a viol da gamba maker, but the authenticity of his violoncellos as original instruments is doubtful. There is a very fine bass-viol, attributed to him, and dated 1547, in the Musée du Conservatoire, Paris. (See ante, Montechiari.) It was brought from Italy by Luigi Tarisio, and belonged to Norblin, the first professor of the violoncello at the Conservatoire, 1826 to 1846.
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