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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1Twenty-five years passed away, and then M. Fetis saw it. Finally, M. Vidal says that it was Kolliker who made it up into the form which it had in Fetis' time. Kolliker is said to have been in business for himself in the year 1789, and it is very probable that Laborde saw the instrument in this maker's hands. With regard to the nationality of Kerlino, the first author says he was of Brittany; the second says that statement is erroneous, and founded on the circumstance that there were names there beginning with the same letters, and he adds that the real habitat of Kerlino was Brescia. The evidence for this latter assertion is that, shortly before the publication of M. Fetis' book (1856), an Italian violin dealer, with whom M. Vuillaume had numerous transactions, in answer, evidently, to enquiries which had been made on the subject for purposes connected with M. Fetis' book, wrote to Vuillaume to the effect that there had been in Brescia, about 1450, a violin maker named Jean Kerlino. The name of the correspondent is not given, nor are the nature and extent of his research explained. He is simply said to be a person who had violins of all sorts through his hands, and was therefore, I presume, considered competent to settle the question. I have an idea that the authority not quoted was Luigi Tarisio, who had an agent in Brescia named Leone Fuchs, a coffee-house keeper and tenor player in the theatre there. He, in conjunction with Signor Luigi Faja, a Cremonese violinist, was employed by Tarisio to pick up any instruments which he might find from time to time for sale, and I fancy that Vuillaume was not quite persuaded that the name of any of these three would be of sufficient weight to carry
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