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Old violins, 1905
29 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 267. See the scan on archive.org.
1PICHOL. Paris.
2PICINO. Padua, 1712; instruments arched; dark varnish.
3PIERRARD, Louis, 1890. A maker of excellent violins, with red-brown varnish, and of good tone, Brussels; pupil of Mougenot, but started his own business in 1883; wrote "Traité de lutherie."
4PIERRAY (or Pierret), Claude. A contemporary of Boquay; he worked in Paris about 1700-30.
5PIETE (PICTE), Noel. Paris, 1760-1810; beautifully finished workmanship.
6PILLEMENT, F. Paris, 1790-1820; capricious maker; dark varnish.
7PILOSIO, Francesco. Gorizia in 1748.
8PIQUE, François Louis; b. 1758 at Rorei, near Mirecourt; d. 1822, Charenton St Maurice. Went to Paris in 1777.
9PIROT, Claude. Paris, 1800-20; good violins, Italian pattern; bellies slightly arched, backs hardly at all; the sound-holes well cut; varnish thick, red-brown or pale yellow colour.
10PITET (or Pilet). A maker in Paris latter part of the seventeenth century; no great value.
11PIZZURMUS (Pozzurnus), David. Genoa, 1760.
12PLACK (Plach), Francis. Schöenbock, Bohemia, 1740-80; good violins.
13PLANE, W. Glasgow, 1860.
14PLANI, Agostino de. Genoa in 1778; commonplace.
15PLATNER, Michele. A Swiss; working in Rome in 1747; fair workmanship; rather arched; scroll well cut; varnish golden-red.
16PLUMEREL. Was working in Paris in 1740.
17PLUMEREL, Charles. Angers, France, in 1822.
18POIROS, Louis. French maker.
19POIRSON, Eloph. Paris, 1875-89; first an amateur, afterwards made for the trade; good work.
20POLIS. Luca de. Cremona in 1751.
21POLLUSCA (Pollusha), Antonio. Rome in 1751.
22PONS, César. Grenoble, 1780-1820; violins large size, arched; work not good.
23POLRON, Peeter. A double-bass used in the Cathedral of Antwerp is dated 1647.
24POSTACCHINI, Andrea. Firmo, 1824; excellent maker, and good repairer of instruments.
25POSTIGLIONE, Vincenzo. 1835 at Naples; good maker, and made many instruments, which rise every year in value.
26POWELL, Royal and Thomas. Two brothers who worked in London, 1770-1800; employed by William Forster, and his son, William Forster; work neat and good.
27PRESSENDA, Giovanni Francesco; b. 1777, Turin; d. there, 1854. Was the son of a strolling fiddler, Raffaele Pressenda; went to Cremona; there studied violin-making under Lorenzo Storioni; learnt there to make the varnish for which his violins were afterwards noted; Stradivari pattern, not much arched, sound-holes well cut, proportions correct, wood good, but scrolls rather roughly finished; red-brown varnish of excellent quality.
28PRESTON, John. York, 1785-95.
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