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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1There is some confusion as to the subsequent career of these makers, and also even uncertainty regarding the dates of their respective deaths—covering about a century—although those mentioned above have for a long time been accepted as correct. Mr. John Bishop, of Cheltenham, in a note appended to their names in his most excellent translation of Otto's work on the violin, states that the Rev. R. F. Elwin addressed a letter to him in 1848, in which he mentioned two violins which had come under his observation bearing the names of these brothers, and the dates 1648 and 1691 respectively. These dates entirely harmonise with those of other two tickets cited by M. Vidal, and believed by him to be genuine, bearing dates 1687 and 1698. But the last authority also gives another ticket, 1697, having on it the name of Hieronymus alone. Now, these brothers worked together for a long time, and finally separated on the marriage of Hieronymus, so that if all the tickets are genuine the latter must have joined his brother again to account for that bearing date 1698. An authentic violin by the brothers Hieronymus and Antonius Amati, described as a distinguished specimen, was, about the year 1809, in the possession of the violinist Libon, and was the object of great admiration on the part of connoisseurs for the beautiful quality of its tone and the exquisite character of its workmanship. This violin bore inside the date 1591. If, therefore, the tickets of the violins previously referred to are genuine—and there seems to be no doubt entertained about the integrity of at least three of them—viz., those two of the brothers united, and bearing 1687 and 1698 respectively, and the one signed by Hieronymus alone,
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