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De fidiculis bibliographia: being an attempt towards a bibliography of the violin and all other instruments played with a bow in ancient and modern times, 1890
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1brated makers. It is an excellent résumé of the principal German treatises on the subject. The progress of the instrument is traced from century to century and from school to school with great care, the leading makers and their leading pupils being noticed in order of date, due prominence being given, as might be expected in a German work, to the school founded by Stainer, and exaggerated ever since by his imitators. The theoretical principles of violin construction are next discussed at length, with the ever-new theories concerning the Cremona varnish. In a word, the whole study of violin-connoisseurship is admirably set forth in a condensed form, and as an essay the work under notice leaves nothing to be desired.
353a. German Translation.
4Ein Fortschritt | in der Geigenbaukunst | oder | das harmonische Unterlagholz | mit 6 Illustrationstabellen | von | N. E. Simoutre | in Basel. [Ornament.]
5Rixheim, 1886. A. Sutter. 8vo, pp. 72 and 6 folding plates.
753b. Second Edition.
8Identical Title-page, 1887.
1068a. BERENZI, Angelo.
11Prof. D. Angelo Berenzi | La Patria | di | Giovanni Paolo Maggini.
12Cremona, 1891. V. Ghisani. 8vo, pp. 14.
13This is a charming and most "industrious" little work, dealing with Maggini and the town which he helped to render famous in connection with the earliest school of real violin-makers. In it the reader is conscientiously referred to almost every writer that has recorded anything of importance in connection with John Paul Maggini, and for this reason, if for no other, this pamphlet is one that no student of the history of the violin can afford to leave unstudied.
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