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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1perfection an instrument of everlasting beauty.
3Cremona, a city of Northern Italy on the banks of the river Po, became the great centre of the celebrated Italian violin makers who flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is said that Gasparo Bertolotti, better known as Gasper d'Salo, of Brescia, Lombardy, who died in 1610, was the first maker of the violin as we know it. Andrea Amati (1530—1611) was the founder of the Cremonese school of violin-makers. The sons of Andrea, Antonio, Girolamo and Nicola followed in the trade and the instruments made by the Amati family were of considerable note commanding at this day prices reaching to hundreds of pounds. Nicola (1596—1684) was supposed to be the great man of the family. He was a son of Girolamo and he established or designed the model now known as the "Grand Amati" such instruments now commanding high prices.
5There are quite a number of other early Italian makers as Andrea Guarneri (1630—1695) and his sons Joseph and Petrus, and Guiseppe Antonio, a nephew of Andrea, Carlo Bergonzi, and many others might be
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