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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1fine copies of his master. There was a Francesco Juliano at Rome about the end of the seventeenth century. Whether these are the same persons or not it is now impossible to tell.
3Paolo Albani, at Cremona and Palermo, was another pupil of Amati. The period of his activity ranges from 1650 to 1670, according to some authorities, and, according to others, as far on as 1720. Another of the same name, Matteo Albani, is assigned to Botzen about 1660, where he is said to have carried the art from Cremona, and to have become the master of the famous Jacob Stainer, who will be mentioned later on. Others deny this statement, but as the dispute is carried on mainly by means of assertions, which are not easily either proved or disproved, and as no very authentic knowledge of his individual instruments appears now to exist, it is hardly worth while to do more than mention his name. Abele, however, states that he was a follower or imitator of Stainer, that he was born in Botzen in 1621, and cites a violin of his make bearing a ticket as follows: "Mathias Albanus, fecit in Tyrol, Bolsani, 1654." It was very highly arched and had reddish-brown varnish, was unequal in tone, the two lower strings being nasal in quality, the second strong and round, and the first powerful and brilliant, but dry. He adds that this Albani died in Botzen in 1673. He had a son, also named Matthias, born at Botzen about 1650, who, after learning his trade with his father, went to Cremona and worked there, making instruments reported to be almost equal to those of the Amatis. Two of them bore respectively the dates 1702 and 1709. Another Michel Albani, somewhat later, was established in Greece. The violins
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