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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1duced. The tone of his violins is grand and grave, bordering upon what some authorities describe as "melancholy." Some of his instruments are ornamented on the back. Two violas and two violins by this master were exhibited at South Kensington in 1872, but genuine instruments by him are far from common, though they cannot, perhaps, be called rare.
3Pietro Santo Maggini, also called Santo Maggini, is conjectured to be of the same family as the great Maggini. He worked in Brescia from 1630 to about 1680. Nothing whatever is known of his violins, but his basses are stated by M. Fetis and every writer who has subsequently treated this subject to be celebrated throughout Italy as the best of their kind. Santo Maggini terminates the list of makers allocated to the Brescian school. Although Brescia continued to be a seat of violin manufacture, those subsequently hailing from that town have to be considered under the Cremona school, as they more or less fell away from the Brescian model and adopted that of Cremona.
5There was a sort of nondescript maker named Antoine Mariani, of Pesaro, but his instruments were held in such low repute that he is simply catalogued as coeval with Paolo Maggini, working from 1570 until about 1620, and he passes through the various sources of information with the same mark of condemnation registered against his name. His violins are said to be of no value, perhaps chiefly for the reason that nobody appears ever to have seen any of them.
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