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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:, 1864
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1called because he was born in the little town of Salo, on the lake of Garda, in Lombardy. He was one of the best Italian makers of the sixteenth century, and worked at Brescia from 1560 to about 1610, that is to say, for nearly fifty years; instruments of his manufacture having been found with these distant dates. Gasparo di Salo was particularly renowned for his viols, bass-viols and violoni, or double-bass viols; besides which, some violins of his make are known, which are distinguished for their fine quality of tone. Of these, there was one very remarkable instrument, bearing the date 1566, in a valuable collection which was sold at Milan in 1807. Baron de Bagge also possessed one about the year 1788, of which Rudolph Kreutzer spoke with admiration. Mr. T. Forster, an English amateur, and the owner of a numerous collection of violins, has one which bears within it the inscription: Gasparo di Salo in Brescia, 1613. Its quality of tone is clear, but dry. If this instrument is genuine, it is a degenerate production of the maker's old age.
3A little later, John Paul Magini, born in Brescia, worked in his native town from 1590 to about 1640, and was perhaps a pupil of the artist just named. He especially distinguished himself in the manufacture of violins. The pattern of his instruments is, in general, large; their proportions are the same as those of Gasparo di Salo, and the style of workmanship is similar. The swell, or arching, is decided, and reaches almost to the edges. The sides, or ribs, are narrow; the bellies, very strong, and of good quality; the backs, generally thin, with the wood cut on the
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