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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1shown a "Violin by Gaspard Duiffoprugcar, Bologna, very ancient," and a "Violin by Gaspard Duiffoprugcar, 1512."
3The next name is Venturi Linarolli, who worked in Venice about 1520, but of him or his work absolutely nothing is known. His name is simply catalogued by various authorities without further remark.
5Then follows Pelignino Zanetto of Brescia, 1540. A splendid violoncello by this maker exists in the Paris Conservatoire, dated 1547. Some call him Perigrino Zanetto, but nothing further is known of him. Next is Morglato Morella at Mantua, 1550. He is said to have been instructed in the art by Padre Dardelli before mentioned. M. Fetis states that instruments of Morella's had been seen bearing the above date, but does not say where nor by whom.
7Although the three last makers constructed, in the main, violas and violoncellos, it is not improbable that one or other of them also made violins; for, somewhere about their time, the last, approximating to our present shape, became known. A few allusions to violins are found in the literature of the period, and in several pictures of the time musical instruments are found which are almost violins in shape. Little details are noticeable which indicate a change in the construction, travelling in the direction of the present model. A picture by Raphael, executed about the year 1503, contains an angel holding a viola whose sound holes are in the form of an f, while those in former use were generally designed in the shape of a C, placed either back to back, or face to face. But I have nowhere met with any mention of any violins by these makers, and even their
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