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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1invited to be present at this ceremony, and to indicate such of the instruments as were eventually to be chosen to take their places in the Cremonese section of the Vienna Exhibition. Among the best were a rare example of a double bass by Jacob Stainer, a violoncello by Andrew Guarnerius, violins by Gasparo da Salò, the Amatis, Grancino, Techler, Stainer and Albani. Besides those registered in the inventory, they unearthed, from an odd corner, three very old lutes which had not, perhaps, been thought worthy of repair or restoration, as they had completely fallen into disuse as musical instruments. These three lutes suggested to the Doctor the following observations: "It has for some time been noted that the Germans took a glorious part in the construction of violins in Italy. The Rugers, Francesco and Vincenzo, both with the surname 'del per,' from 1650 until about 1700, Gio. Batt. Ruger, called 'il bon,' towards the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century (according to Fetis), and other three of this name, form, after the Amatis, Guarnerius, and Stradivari, one of the most renowned families of such artists. Like these, equally of German origin, is David Techler, who lived in Rome from 1684 to about 1730, Hans Mann in Naples, and also, probably, Matthew, Anthony, and Francis Gofriller in Venice. The manufacture of lutes in Italy, by German artists, is considerably more remote than that of the construction of violins, and the lutes found in Eisenberg are really products of German masters who worked in Italy. Two of these bore the inscription, in large Gothic letters, 'Laux Maler,' the rest could not be deciphered in consequence of damage which the tickets had sus-
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