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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, 1864
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1species of Geige with four strings, which is mentioned in the work of Martin Agricola. The quality of tone was sweet and subdued. The instrument bore within it this inscription: Joan. Kerlino, ann. 1449. This name, commencing with the syllable Ker, probably led Laborde to believe that the maker flourished in Brittany; because the names of many families in that country are known to begin in the same way; but from information recently obtained from Italy—through a correspondent of M. Vuillaume, who has long dealt in bow-instruments, and had numerous originals pass through his hands—we learn that there was a maker at Brescia, about 1450, named John Kerlino. There is every reason to believe that the instrument possessed by Koliker, at the beginning of this century, was made by this artist, and that he was the founder of the school of Brescia, one of the oldest and most distinguished in Italy. It is worthy of remark that Kerlino, like all the makers of the first period whose names and works are known, made only rebeccs, viols of all dimensions, lire d'arco and lirone with eleven and twelve strings.
3After Kerlino, the oldest Italian maker is Pietro Dardelli, of Mantua, who flourished about the year 1500, and of whose manufacture some beautiful viols still exist in the cabinets of the curious. Then came Gaspard Duiffoprugcar, a celebrated artist, born in the Italian Tyrol, and who established himself in Bologna, about 1510. Fine instruments of this maker, such as bass-viols, tenors, and violettas, or little viols, constructed by Duiffoprugcar for the chapel and the chamber of Francis the First, King of France, have been preserved
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