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Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1OLD VIOLINS
31675–1740; died at 28; self-taught; an original genius; about two hundred violins; much valued when can be found.
4OHBERG, Johann. Stockholm in 1773; fairly good; a yellow varnish.
5ONEDA, Gio. Battista, b. 1529. A maker of cithers and violins (?) in Brescia about 1562.
6ONGARO, Ignazio. Venice, 1783.
7ORLANDELLI, Paolo. Codogno, Italy, eighteenth century.
8ORTEGA. 1840; maker and repairer. Madrid.
9OSTLER, Andreas. Breslau, 1730; chiefly viols.
10OTTO, Carl August, fourth son of J. A. Otto; b. 1801, Jena; d. 1883, Ludwigslust; maker to the Mecklenberg-Schwerin Court.
11OTTO, Carl Christian, second son of J. A. Otto, 1792; Halle; repairs old instruments.
12OTTO, C. W. F. Louis, fifth son of J. A. Otto, 1805–84, Stockholm.
13OTTO, Georg August Gottfried, eldest son of J. A. Otto; 1789, Weimar; 1857, Jena; good maker.
14OTTO, Heinrich Wilhelm, third son of J. A. Otto; b. 1796. Amsterdam and Berlin.
15OTTO, Hermann, son of Ludwig Otto, 1859–84. Cologne, St. Petersburg.
16OTTO, Jacob August; b. 1764, Gotha; d. 1830, Jena. Pupil of Franz Anton Ernst at Gotha; settled in Weimar; maker to the Court; worked also in Halle, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Berlin, and Jena; fine repairer, but made excellent violins and violoncellos. His five sons all became violin makers.
17OTTO, Ludwig, son of Georg August Gottfried Otto; b. 1821, Jena; 1887, St. Petersburg, Cologne, St. Petersburg. He exhibited three violins, a viola, violoncello, and double-bass, in London, 1862. They were all well made, and were moderately priced.
18OTTO, Louis, son of Carl August Otto; b. July 15, 1844, Ludwigslust. Pupil of his father in Ludwigslust, 1860–65; in Cologne, 1865–66, then went to Hanover, 1872; then still there (1898); careful in selection of wood; large Stradivari pattern; excellent work; has made 238 violins, and many tenors and 'cellos. First-prizeman, Chicago and Melbourne.
19OUVRARD, Jean. 1725–46; pupil of Claude Pierray. Transition maker, but true violoncello pattern, though continued to make viols.
20PACHERELE, Michel. A maker in Paris in 1779; followed Guersan; slightly arched; yellow varnish.
21PACHERELE, Pierre. 1803, Mirecourt; 1871, Nice; fellow-apprentice of J. B. Vuillaume at Mirecourt; worked at Genoa, and with Pressenda, Turin; made a great many violins, altos, and violoncellos, all of good workmanship; varnish too thick; took Stradivari for his model; a clever repairer.
22PACQUET. From Aix; working in Marseilles in 1785.
23PADEWET, Johann. A good maker; d. about 1874; started at Basle, 1844, but moved to Carlsruhe.
24PADEWET, Johann, son of Johann Padewet; b. Aug. 23, 1851–95,
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